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Convert single O/S disk to RAID 1 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

I have a server running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with only a single drive. There are 2 more empty hot swap bays in the chassis. I want to add a little redundancy by adding a RAID 1 to the system. The ...
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Is there any simple, free tool to track VM dependancies to linked-clones in VMWare?

We have a few "base installations" of various OS environments that we use to create linked clones in VMware Workstation. Sometimes, to save space and because speed is of secondary importance, those ...
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Export AWS AMI as a master for bare metal, non-virtualized installations

I work for a small start up that needs to deploy lots of desktop computers to end users with Ubuntu and Open CV installed. To save money on hardware, I'd like to use AWS to mock up our base ...
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Vsphere client could not to connect to (IP of Vcenter).Unable to connect to the remote server

When I was connected to the vCenter server with the vSphere client and cloning a VM, my connection was broken. I tried to reconnect to vCenter with the vSphere client and encoutered this message:
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Trying to clone old linux machines using to img methods

I found this handy website to show how to clone drives to a img file: https://www.maketecheasier.com/clone-entire-hard-drive-linux/ What neatish looking option was partimage, so I wanted to get that ...
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Kernel files (linux-image) to exclude on rsync full clone to different hardware

EDIT Now I'm able to boot the OS. As I made clean copy of the /etc directory just after buying the "new" dedicated server and installing Ubuntu server 20.04, i proceeded to: Boot the "...
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Can't connect to cloned AWS machine

I have an existing AWS virtual machine. I want to clone it and change the clone. The existing machine is accessible to anyone with http, https and ssh. I want the clone to be accessible as well. I did ...
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Converting a RAID 1 drive to a regular one and booting off of it

I'm using mdadm to manage a RAID 1 array with three disks. Would it be possible to take a single drive from the array (i.e. /dev/sdc), turning it into a regular drive, and then booting another PC off ...
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is there a possible to clone one server to other server?

I have a server running with Debian 10 . Some process are running in it. I want to have all the same software operating system/application to be installed in another server. Is there any way just to ...
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Clonezilla does not carry over user login configuration in Ubuntu 18.04

I have a machine with Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 installed. There is a single user and the user is set to login automatically without asking for password. I took device image with Clonezilla to restore the ...
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Clone Centos 7 installation - MBR to GPT

I want to clone a centos 7 installation (using LVM) from a 500GB drive (using MBR) to a new 6TB HDD. I tried to use clonezilla to clone the the drives with no success. fdisk -l output from ...
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hyper-v on w2012 - how to clone guest multiple times with same disk and diferent machine name

I have a Win2012 R2 server with Hyper-V that have 20 virtual machines (w2003) that use a base disk and diferential ones for each one, the vms was increased size with time and I need to start fresh ...
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Clone Azure VM with backup restore rename?

I have seen various methods of cloning an Azure VM that all require the original VM to be sysprepped and generalized, therefore destroying it. Instead of this method, I just took a backup of the ...
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'Could not find filesystem /dev/root' after Clonezilla clone of redhat install to newer hardware'

I am cloning what appears to be a redhat 4 (possibly 5?)server to fairly newer hardware, as the original has a failing board. DBA would rather not reconfigure a new installation so they want me to ...
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Restoring Windows Image Backup to same drives in different computer

I have a Dell Precision T5400 with two 500 GB hard drives in RAID 1 using the motherboard RAID controller. I ran out of expansion room in the case, so I am moving to a Precision T7500, also with built-...
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Clone RAID5 from one controller to another?

i have a question concerning cloning a Raid5. System: HP ML350 with a RAID controller, 2 Bays. Bay 1 Raid5 3x2TB Bay 2 RAID5 3x600 SAS The 3 SAS Disks in Bay 2 need to be swapped, it is predicted ...
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Is HD, SSD or SD card cloning a good practice?

Cloning is very convenient if multiple identical systems need to be created. But I have the following concern. As far as I know during formatting of file system and even during it's use a bad disk ...
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Test server clone -Linode/CentOS/Aegir

One of the cool things about the Linode VPS is being able to clone the entire server and move a copy of it to a new Linode server. That way you can have a test server that mirrors your production with ...
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Convert a dynamic VHD to fixed with shortest downtime and only copying used data

We have determined that dynamic (expandable) VHDs in our Hyper-V environment are causing performance slowdowns and would like to start converting the vhds attached to about 600 VMs (about 150 win2k3, ...
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VMWare ESXi 5 - How to clone Windows 2008 SBS

I am running two Windows 2008 Server on a VMware ESXi 5 Server (VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Kit). There are two different ESXi hosts within my VMware datacenter environment. Let us call them ...
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clone remote server in entirety to local vmware or virtualbox?

I'd like to clone an entire remote webserver to a local vmware player setup and maintain a copy of it possibly via rsync? Is this even possible? In theory I can create a local player with centos4 to ...
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Rescue system running TFS that BSODs, into vmware esxi

After moving to new facilities, one of our old Dell servers running Windows Server 2003 R2 on PowerEdge 2650 HW BSODs with 0x8e. The server runs Team Foundation Server, so we have a few guys dependent ...
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Windows - how to clone network connections entry to another machine

Let's assume we have two Windows XP computers with identical hardware configuration, including GPRS modem connected to COM1 serial port. On the first PC we add new modem device, set up gprs connection ...
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Resizing RAID-1 devices after dd clone

I had 2 x 250 GB disks with 3 md devices - raid 1 setup on them. One of them is for /. I dd-cloned those disks to another 2 x 2 TB SSDs. What is the best solution to increase the raid device sizes? &...
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Why did dd report a "No Space" error after cloning a USB drive?

In Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, I use this command to clone one Samsung USB GPT drive to another identical drive: sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=16M conv=sync,noerror status=progress This operation ...
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How to clone a linux server that it fails , so in case of sometning goes wrong in the process of fixing it i still have the original hard drive?

My problem is that I have a hard drive having a linux server (It fails during booting up process) and some valuable files. ( tried almost all solutions on the internet but no luck) Now I found a ...
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What's the best means to clone the root linux hard drive to a new drive?

I bought a new enterprise grade SSD to replace my Samsung SSD. It was $500, not cheap. Anyway, the purpose is to have a more reliable and longer-lasting root hard drive, since a non-enterprise drive ...
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How to clone a cloud machine locally?

Earlier when we are using AWS, we used to create an ami and download that hard disk file to create a new machine from it. Recently, we changed to other local cloud services which doesn't have this ...
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VMware clone as backup

Having a couple of ESXi and a vCenter 6.5. I'd like to backup some of the production VMs i.e. have a "photo" of a known working state with all programs installed and configured for the ...
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How to Clone Windows VM on GCP and the auto join clone to domain

I would like to create a Windows virtual machine (clone) on GCP from an existing Windows virtual machine on GCP And i would like to have the clone autojoin the domain.
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Cloned Server's or Systems

Is it possible to run the clone of a system in the same network, having same ip and mac? We have a linux based server and on testing, we felt as if the connections arent going to the same server all ...
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Linux - How to clone and restore the root(/) partition on a running system

I have a specific situation with one remote Debian(Stretch) server. Mainly there is no one at the site and I need to do some risky upgrades and reconfigurations remotely. I'm looking for a way to ...
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Clone/Duplicate EC2 Windows Instance

I have a Windows Server 2008 EC2 instance hosting SQL Server 2008 named DB-01. I'm looking to clone this DB-01 instance so my team can work on the cloned DB-01 (DB-01-CLN) and existing DB-01 instances ...
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What is the best approach to clone a website and the clone site will a cold standby

Given: Current website: https://www.classic-site.com/ CMS: Wordpress My ideas are as follows, but I would like to get inputs and comments from public experts. Password protect the whole site using ....
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Can't resize ext4 partition

I have an 500GB HDD disk (480GB free) that I need to clone it to an SSD 240GB. I have read that cloning the HDD to the SSD should work for NTFS filesystems. But it isn't working for the ext partition....
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Use gparted to copy CentOS boot volume

I can't seem to copy all partitions from my boot device (SDA) to my new ssd (SDB). For some reason the copy function is greyed out for the SDA2 partition. I can only copy the SDA1 partition. I'm ...
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Cloning LVM raw volume

I have to clone and manage some LVM RAW volumes that were created without making filesystem ext4. So I tried to mount this volume and linux didn't find any filesystem to mount. Inside this volumes I ...
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Moving a domain controller to another disk

Considering whether or not to move my domain controller to another disk (SSD) or not as in looking at Resource Manager the disk I/O appears to be the bottleneck for performance. In the research I'm ...
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Is it possible to clone raid member disks in an array with dd

I'm looking to expand the capacity of my qnap NAS by tripling the drive size from 2TBx8 to 6TBx8. However, I'm afraid the raid 5 will die before I can rebuild the array 8 times!! Can I remove and ...
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Terminal servers, VM clone keep getting kernel-power 2008r2 crashing both servers

I'm desperate at the moment to get an answer to the following problem. Als servers are managed in our VMWare-vcenter environment. We've got 2 terminal servers, term01 and term01 and we also got a ...
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Which directories to exclude before full Ubuntu synchronization?

I have two Ubuntu server which I want to synchronize so that I can run the second server when the first server is down. I want to do the synchronization using rsync. But I read, not all the ...
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LXC container clone has no network and SSH stopped

I was having this networking problem with LXC containers (question and answer here:bridging LXC containers to host network with different IP range) and if I have found a solution, I still have not ...
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Migrate Non RAID 2008 Single Drive Server to SSD

I have a customer running a custom app that would benefit from improved SSD speed. Their existing server is running Windows 2008 with a single SATA drive (no RAID). The server has an open drive bay ...
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Cloning instance - Original kernel not available when creating AMI

I have a EC2 Ubuntu server on Amazon cloud and I'm trying to clone an instance "X" by creating a snapshot of the instance and creating an AMI from that snapshot. The problem is: When creating the AMI, ...
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Moving large data from faulty disk in ESXi

We just received a new massive server and are currently moving our VMs into it. However one of our ESXi has a faulty disk and has some VMs that already failed a couple of times. Currently we use scp ...
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Clone Ubuntu to Another Hardware

My organization is planning to move from a Windows Environment to a Ubuntu based Linux environment. We need to mass migrate about 60 pcs to Ubuntu, with a all the custom applications needed. We find ...
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Can a SATA hard disk be removed from bay w/o shutting down after being marked 'failed' in RAID1 array?

We have a software RAID1 array set up in a Supermicro 1u server. Can a SATA hard disk be removed (in a bay drive setup) w/o shutting down the machine? This would be after marking it 'failed' in the ...
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How do I create a bootable drive from a partition using Clonezilla?

I have a 500GB HDD with two partitions on it. A 40 GB OS partition (Windows Server 2008 R2), and a 420GB data partition. I would like to split these partitions off to two physical drives. (A 120GB ...
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What is the best way to clone a set of software RAID 1 disks?

Here's the thing: One of my friends has a server with software RAID-1 with a set of two disks. The task at hand is simple: clone the disks into another set of two empty disks. He is running CentOS, I ...
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