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:Author: Tim Daneliuk (tundra@tundraware.com)
 
:Version: ``$Id: baremetal.rst,v 1.123 2014/08/23 23:01:02 tundra Exp $``
:Version: ``$Id: baremetal.rst,v 1.124 2014/08/26 13:15:28 tundra Exp $``
 
 
Précis
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when rebuilding systems so you don't have to manually reinstall every
application, system setting and so forth.
 
The purpose here was to do just that - create images capable of being
"poured" onto, say, a blank, new hard drive, but *using only standard
restored onto, say, a blank, new hard drive, but *using only standard
linux command line tools*.
 
 
.. warning:: Doing this wrong can **clobber your systems and its
 
dd if=/shared/root.dd.gz | lzop -d >/dev/sda2 # Restore rootvg LVM (rest of OS)
 
 
Restoring To A Different Sized Drive
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Restoring To A Different Size Drive
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Because this is partition based - that is, you are imaging and
restoring *partitions*, not disks - you can actually restore to a
physical disk that is a different size than the one from which the