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Questions tagged [cloning]

Creating an almost identical copy, for example of a computer installation or a hard disk.

The process of creating one ore more almost identical copies of a single ancestor.

Cloning may refer to creating copies of datastores, like hard disks, but also of a physical computer installation or a virtual machine installation, including operating system, installed software and stored data.

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Migration of Virtual Machines using SCVMM error 1612

The situation is as follows: I have installed SCVMM on our Windows Server 2008. I can create VMs fine, use them, etc. Everything works fine with the VMs themselves. However, if I decide to do the following: Migration of an existing VM, Cloning an…
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Using dd command and running out of space while cloning drive to img

I have a problem with drive cloning. Im using dd on damaged disk with bad sectors trying to make an image from it. Im booting computer with Live Linux CD . Damaged disk: sda 146GB (NTFS) External drive: sdb 300GB (NTFS) After running the command…
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Cloning & resizing Server 2003 partitions with gparted, some questions

Ok, so the situation I have is this. I've got a couple of Dell PowerEdge 2950's that are running out of drive space on the boot volume, they have a perc 5/i hardware Raid Controller. I've bought 4 500GB drives and my goal is to migrate the…
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Converting a physical Windows 98 machine to a Virtual machine

I need to convert a physical Windows 98 laptop to a virtual machine. I need to do this because I need to migrate an old application which still is used, and cannot run natively on Windows 7. Any ideas on how to proceed with the conversion please?
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What's the best way to store an image?

I am attempting to create my own one-off imaging utility based on fedora and I have one main question. The utility (well, in theory) will save a raw image of the machine to a network storage location. For me the best target is a samba share. The…
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What else to change or standardize in cloning Linux as Virtual Machine?

What would be the thing to consider in making multiple copies of Linux as VM ? in Windows i know there is sysprep to generate random SSID and make it unique copy. Can anyone share it here please ? Thanks, Albert
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How do I restore to a delta file (disk) on Vmware ESXi

Using VMware Server ESXi (freebie version) I have a Virtual Machine (win 2k3 r2 server). When I first provisioned it I took a snapshot of it. I recently tried to clone the primary drive using my standard hardware-based method to grow a windows…
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VM guest cloning

I am able to make a copy of my existing VM guest folder and another folder on my datasource (trying to clone this vm to a new vm). However, I can't seem to add a way to add it to the inventory so that I could start it up. Any suggestion on this…
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VMware Converter: Can one skip empty space in block-level cloning mode?

Many people recommend block-level cloning over file-level cloning - besides various reasons - mainly because of its superior speed advantage. And true: Data transfer rates are about 50-75% percent faster using block-level cloning from my…
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Sysprep without audit mode?

In preparing a (windows 7) machine for cloning, does one need to run it in audit mode before installing/customising? I have a customised machine I would like to sysprep and clone, without having to re-create in audit mode. And from where does one…
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How to access the contents of VMDK file in the ESXi host?

We have a number of computers based on the old HP ProLiant Gen1 blades, and we are going to get rid of that. It is impossible to reinstall the software which is licensed and support requirement are quite tough, we decided to virtualize is's system…
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Azure Windows VM restore to new copy from backup when PC joined to domain

I have a VM that is running in Azure, and joined to our domain (also in Azure). I need to restore a copy of this VM to a new machine, however because the computer is joined to domain I have issues with Kerberos and duplicate SIDs. Sysprep OOBE…
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Clone a RHEL 5 box into a smaller disk

I'm trying to clone a physical RHEL 5 box into VMware. That box contains a 1 TB disk which is hardly used (80 GB). Thus I want the new virtual machine to have a 100 GB disk instead of wasting a new 1 TB. The free disk space in the VM host is only…
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VMware -- clone -vs- templating a gold master server

I'm a little confused. I have just completed making a "gold" master VM server that I'll be using for making new servers. To make new servers based on this gold master.... Should I simply clone the gold master? -or- Should I create a template and…
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What happens when I copy an AWS EC2 Instance from one region to another?

What exactly gets transferred when I copy an AWS EC2 Instance from one region to another? Do all the packages installed using yum get transferred? Are all the core packages (with my added content - e.g. special settings in php.ini etc) get…
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