How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows
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Did anyone ever figure out if you could do this with dual USB slots?
I was trying to think of a way to do this from home via iDRAC as opposed to being in the office.
I guess I could leave the "blank" USB in the other slot, then boot to a Live Windows CD, do the clone, then reboot the server.
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Was my post so laziness prone it didn't even deserve a response? LOL.
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
Was my post so laziness prone it didn't even deserve a response? LOL.
Likely.
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@scottalanmiller said
Likely.
I mean that's a thing, right?
What's the point of iDRAC if I have to come into the office?
Though I know a lot of people can't work from home, so we'll just say this is all theoretical.
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@travisdh1 said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
After actually looking at my server yesterday, it doesn't look like XenServer puts itself on an LVM partition. wth man, makes no sense. Even ProxMox got that part right.
And uses EXT4 and VHD!!!!
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
Did anyone ever figure out if you could do this with dual USB slots?
I was trying to think of a way to do this from home via iDRAC as opposed to being in the office.
I guess I could leave the "blank" USB in the other slot, then boot to a Live Windows CD, do the clone, then reboot the server.
Yes, that should work. iDRAC with the full license should let you do anything that you could do with the keyboard and monitor.
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@scottalanmiller said
Yes, that should work. iDRAC with the full license should let you do anything that you could do with the keyboard and monitor.
Though I am assuming a "Windows Live CD" is probably against all sorts of licensing rules.
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
@scottalanmiller said
Yes, that should work. iDRAC with the full license should let you do anything that you could do with the keyboard and monitor.
Though I am assuming a "Windows Live CD" is probably against all sorts of licensing rules.
Correct.
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
@scottalanmiller said
Yes, that should work. iDRAC with the full license should let you do anything that you could do with the keyboard and monitor.
Though I am assuming a "Windows Live CD" is probably against all sorts of licensing rules.
Right. Just fire up clonezilla from iDRAC, no licensing issues, and it's dd made easy.
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@travisdh1 said
Right. Just fire up clonezilla from iDRAC, no licensing issues, and it's dd made easy.
I was wondering if Clonezilla would work with booting issues and whatnot. I guess there is only 1 way to find out.
Hmmm, maybe I better do it the Windows way (from this thread) first juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust in case. I can see myself ending up with two blank USB sticks. Duh.
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
@travisdh1 said
Right. Just fire up clonezilla from iDRAC, no licensing issues, and it's dd made easy.
I was wondering if Clonezilla would work with booting issues and whatnot. I guess there is only 1 way to find out.
Hmmm, maybe I better do it the Windows way (from this thread) first juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuust in case. I can see myself ending up with two blank USB sticks. Duh.
If you make a backup from XenCenter before that, then all you have to do is reinstall and restore the backup at least.
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@travisdh1 said
If you make a backup from XenCenter before that, then all you have to do is reinstall and restore the backup at least.
I actually have a question about that. but I will move it to my XS thread.
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So, just to circle back to this...
Is it correct that Clonezilla can make an exact clone of my current boot USB stick?
So if I plug an identical USB stick into another port, and boot to Clonezilla, I should be ale to make an exact clone, and then boot to the clone?
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Technically, yes.
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@Dashrender said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
Technically, yes.
^ my experience with clonezilla summarized.
Super cool software but it's got a learning cliff if you're unfamiliar with linux.
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@MattSpeller said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
@Dashrender said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
Technically, yes.
^ my experience with clonezilla summarized.
Super cool software but it's got a learning cliff if you're unfamiliar with linux.
Tell me more.
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
@MattSpeller said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
@Dashrender said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
Technically, yes.
^ my experience with clonezilla summarized.
Super cool software but it's got a learning cliff if you're unfamiliar with linux.
Tell me more.
what you want to do should be pretty straight forward, you'll be working with local disks, I'd make sure you unplug the HDD before starting.
Assuming the USB are the same brand and size, you'll have to be sure which is which before you clone to make sure you don't go the wrong way.
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@Dashrender said
I'd make sure you unplug the HDD before starting.
Planning to do thie remotely, so no, I won't be.
Assuming the USB are the same brand and size, you'll have to be sure which is which before you clone to make sure you don't go the wrong way.
Is there perhaps a better bootable utility to do this?
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I think I already asked this, but...
Doesn't XS write anything to disk, like settings or configurations or anything?
If I set up XS, and don't add any VMs or anything to it, would a clone that I took 60 days ago boot right up?
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@BRRABill said in How-To clone a Xen USB on Windows:
I think I already asked this, but...
Doesn't XS write anything to disk, like settings or configurations or anything?
If I set up XS, and don't add any VMs or anything to it, would a clone that I took 60 days ago boot right up?
Yes, it should boot up just fine.
