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#69392 7-Oct-2010 10:33

Anyone here know some good software to cold clone Linux drives/partitions (VMware primarily) ?
Commercial options are fine.....

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#389093 7-Oct-2010 11:02

If these are vmdk files already... copy + paste or cp or xcopy depending on your OS of choice :-)

If you are going from physical to virtual the VMWare convertor boot cd available from VMWare for evaluation works well. http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/faqs.html

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#389115 7-Oct-2010 11:46

We're wanting to clone an existing VMware installation to another HDD without having to do a reinstall etc - we have our reasons ;)

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#389120 7-Oct-2010 11:56

Just copy the folder containing all the VM files to another location, when you 'power on' the copy and are asked wheteher you moved or copied - always select "move", this preserves the MAC address across VM's.

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#389146 7-Oct-2010 13:01

BartManGeek: Just copy the folder containing all the VM files to another location, when you 'power on' the copy and are asked wheteher you moved or copied - always select "move", this preserves the MAC address across VM's.

Unless of course you have copied it at which point you will have two machines with the same mac address...

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#389222 7-Oct-2010 15:15

We dont want to copy just the VM's, we want to clone the entire physical HDD or partitions that ESX resides on. Nothing seems to allow us to do this (that weve come across so far)

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#389226 7-Oct-2010 15:29

ahh I see kemosabe... is it running on a hardware RAID1 array? If so pull a disk and use that as your 'copy'

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#389934 9-Oct-2010 18:21

Needed to be more specific in the op.

Have you hit up Vmware themselves? You'd probably get an answer in one of their forums..

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#390069 10-Oct-2010 09:01

Found solution... Ghost4Linux :)

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