Re: [Clonezilla-live] bootable restoration and Linux soft RAID

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

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Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I've just discovered Clonezilla, and it looks pretty. Thanks for the
> excellent piece of software :) I am looking for a way to clone a Linux
> installation, onto various machines. My best bets are probably mondo and
> clonezilla. I'm not too happy with mondo, so I will be trying clonezilla
> very soon. I could not find any online docs (or man pages!) for
> clonezilla for some reason! I have a few questions, I hope someone can
> help me answer
Well, some info is in
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net
and
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
> 
> 1) Does clonezilla support cloning Linux soft RAID (My setup RAID1 over
> sda2 & sdb2 with sda1 & sdb1 as swap). Will this clone MBR + partition
> table too ?
No. Sorry. Clonezilla only deals with /dev/[sh]d[a-z] and LVM2 now.

> 2) Is there anyway to create a bootable restoration DVD? i.e. the "user"
> pops in the DVD, it boots, wipes disks and restores with minimal
> interaction ?
Yes, you can do that. Check
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/
for more info. Especially here:
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/#make_clonezilla_live

> 3) If I restore to disks of different sizes, does clonezilla resize
> partitions ?
Yes, but some tricks are required. Check
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/index.php#path=./2_System&entry=26_resize.faq

> 4) If I restore to IDE disks (hdX) will this work?!
What do you mean ?
> 
> Thanks guys
> 
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