13 May
2010
13 May
'10
2:39 p.m.
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.
I mostly work on CentOS.
Thx Vai