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Copying Centos to another server
I just did a fresh install of centos and spent ages adding all my standard libraries. Is there a way I can easily take a copy of this build and deploy to another new server?

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VirtualBox: create image of bootable flash disk
I have a bootable flash disk which I want to use as a boot disk for my virtual machine. How do I make a virtual hard drive file out of the flash disk?
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Client/server setup with network login and standard system image?
In my school library, I notice that everytime I log in to a client computer, the system seems to load my preferences and settings from a server, and the client seems to run some sort of static system image which is then personalised with my…

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Hosting an image server
I have developed a mobile app, that lists some date with images. Currently the images are hosted on the same server where the services reside, but as the number of images rises I would like to unload them to a different server.
I have looked up for…

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Best strategy to deploy distributed application on nodes
this is a general question about deploying and maintaining nodes. I am not a sysadmin.
I am considering the following 'naive' strategy:
Pick a linux flavor and stick to it.
Create an image with my linux flavor.
Install my application, scripts and…

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ImageMagick on Windows VPS
Greetings,
I want a VPS specially to install ImageMagick. My current hosting provider only offers Virtuozzo powered VPSs and they say there is a conflict between the virtualization software and ImageMagick.
But IM does not install any system DLLs so…
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How to configure Active Directory for possible image deployments/imaging of computer joined to domain
I want to make an image of computer that is in domain. The image itself isn't supposed to be used for anything else then to bring the computer back into state it was saved with (including domain membership). This is test environment to test how…

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Root Certificate Not Applied to Imaged Machines
We have a certificate authority / server in our domain. If we install new machines and join them to the domain, they automatically receive the root certificate in their Trusted Root Certification Authorities store. However, our PC group often uses…

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Best Free Windows Imaging Software For Servers
We are running two physical servers both Windows 2003, not virtualized. What is the best free (if any) windows software to take a full image backup of the entire drives? If possible, while the image is taking place, it should not bring the hosts to…

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Convert Windows Server 2008 to HyperV Image
I have a windows server (server 2008).
It has gotten complicated with installs of IIS, SQL server, MySQL, Com Components, and site data.
I am constantly worried that if the sever explodes, that re-configuring everything would take a small army, and…

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Pushing image changes to multiple servers
I need the ability to push images out to multiple servers whenever they're updated. I've looked at Network Filesystems, but they're all but worthless due to their speed. Images can be uploaded to any one of 3 servers, and would then need to be…

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Open/Mount XEN image formatted using NTFS
I've created XEN image with dd some time ago.
The image is formatted using the NTFS
How it is possible to mount this image from Linux or Windows?
Thank You very much!

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How can I switch Linux running OS from disk to running from RAM without restarting?
Is it possible to switch to running Linux from RAM or RAM disk after starting starting initially from disk?
eg. You need to make an image of your hard disk, FTP it to a remote location, some time later you want the image back, so you start the…

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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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Which image hosting is better?
My website is having nearly 50 GB of images and growing gradually. I want to move these images to either S3 or another image hosting server.
As an alternative solution, I want to keep these at another domain and want to serve images from there.
In…
ram