On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:09 PM, RSCL Mumbai rscl.mumbai@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any lightweight cd bootable distros which can clone the image of the HDD on an external storage and then I can clone it back later or on a different machine with same hardware ?
I have used Clonezilla. Works great! It does Device to Device or create an image file on an external storage and restore it on another PC.
The only thing I could not crack is the MAC address issue. Even if I have 2 identical PC/Server, the MAC addresses are different. When I restore the image on a new Hardware & boot the OS, it finds a new
MAC.
This results in creating a new interface leading to problems with firewall and other 'eth' based scripts.
If anyone can throw any light on this, it would be of help.
find /etc -type f -exec egrep -Hin eth0 {} ;
will identify the udev file in your system.
Edit the relevant lines and you can map eth0 to the new MAC address.
-- Arun Khan
Thx Arun, but this can only be done after the OS has booted on the new h/w. And by then its too late. The new eth is already created.
Currently, I change the MAC address in: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 & /etc/udev/rules.d/xxxx (some file called persistent-net?? not sure of the exact name.)
Thats the best solution I have.