Looking for ideas on how to best image a server 2

[sbrews]

I will be building a linux server soon (for work) that will be highly customized - both in apps installed and various parameters. Once done, that install will need to be rolled into an image of some sort so that it can be applied to many more servers (they all need to be identical). I have looked at some of the various tools ie clonezilla, but they all seem to require an image server be set up someplace (which is not an option) or something similar which makes them unworkable options. I will need to take this image and ship it to other locations for it to be laid down there. The image would preferably need to be stored on a USB device (thumb drive or disk). Also, the resulting image should be in a common format - ie "dd" output, ISO, tar, etc.

I am leaning towards "dd" at the moment but would like to know how others have approached this.

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[Annihilannic]

I'm pretty sure we have used CloneZilla to do this to an external drive (i.e. no image server was required).

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[Noway2]

Why not just use DD to make an image and then compress it? No fancy application required. You could even run a hashing sum such as SHA1 or MD5 against it which can be used to verify both the copy image and the resulting drive.

 

[sbrews]

I was leaning towards "dd", but I have since found out that the partner that I need to give copies to is using clonezilla. After doing some more research on clonezilla, it looks to be the better option (and works for the partner) at this time.


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[Annihilannic]

If I recall the reason we chose CloneZilla over dd was that it saved a lot of time by not copying empty space.

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[sbrews]

After looking at and trying several options, clonezilla is the tool that was chosen - works like a charm and has a small learning curve too.


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