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FreeBSD sysutils : dolly

A program to clone harddisks/partitions over a fast switched network A program to clone harddisks/partitions over a fast switched network A program to clone harddisks/partitions over a fast switched network

 [ excerpt taken from distfile's README ]

Dolly is used to clone the installation of one machine to (possibly
many) other machines. It can distribute image-files (even gnu-zipped),
partitions or whole hard disk drives to other partitions or hard
disk drives. As it forms a "virtual TCP ring" to distribute data,
it works best with fast switched networks (we were able to clone a
2 GB Windows NT partition to 15 machines in our cluster over Gigabit
Ethernet in less than 4 minutes).

As dolly clones whole partitions block-wise it works for most
filesystems. We used it to clone partitions of the following type:
Linux, Windows NT, Oberon, Solaris (most of our machines have multi
boot setups). We have a small (additional) Linux installation on
all of our machines or use a small one-floppy-disk-linux (e.g.
muLinux) to do the cloning. On newer machines we use PXE to boot a
small system in a RAM disk. From that system we then clone the hard
disks in the machines.

Author: Felix Rauch 
 

dolly history

v. 1.5
date: 2006/05/15 00:43:51;  author: itetcu;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -8
- Update to 0.58C

- Fix OPTIONS handleing
- silence portlint

PR:		ports/97280
Submitted by:	Shaun Amott 
Approved by:	lawrance (mentor)

v. 1.4
date: 2006/05/13 04:15:28;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -2
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with S

v. 1.3
date: 2005/11/14 10:56:28;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -4
Remove explicit checks for /usr/bin/bzip2.
This has been part of the base OS since 4.4.

v. 1.2
date: 2005/03/10 22:10:02;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Drop maintainership

v. 1.1
date: 2004/07/20 22:08:44;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;
New port dolly version 0.57: A program to clone harddisks/partitions
over a fast switched network
=============================================================================


v. 1.5
date: 2006/05/15 00:43:51;  author: itetcu;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -8
- Update to 0.58C

- Fix OPTIONS handleing
- silence portlint

PR:		ports/97280
Submitted by:	Shaun Amott 
Approved by:	lawrance (mentor)

v. 1.4
date: 2006/05/13 04:15:28;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -2
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with S

v. 1.3
date: 2005/11/14 10:56:28;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -4
Remove explicit checks for /usr/bin/bzip2.
This has been part of the base OS since 4.4.

v. 1.2
date: 2005/03/10 22:10:02;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Drop maintainership

v. 1.1
date: 2004/07/20 22:08:44;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;
New port dolly version 0.57: A program to clone harddisks/partitions
over a fast switched network
=============================================================================


v. 1.5
date: 2006/05/15 00:43:51;  author: itetcu;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -8
- Update to 0.58C

- Fix OPTIONS handleing
- silence portlint

PR:		ports/97280
Submitted by:	Shaun Amott 
Approved by:	lawrance (mentor)

v. 1.4
date: 2006/05/13 04:15:28;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -2
Remove USE_REINPLACE from all categories starting with S

v. 1.3
date: 2005/11/14 10:56:28;  author: edwin;  state: Exp;  lines: +0 -4
Remove explicit checks for /usr/bin/bzip2.
This has been part of the base OS since 4.4.

v. 1.2
date: 2005/03/10 22:10:02;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Drop maintainership

v. 1.1
date: 2004/07/20 22:08:44;  author: lioux;  state: Exp;
New port dolly version 0.57: A program to clone harddisks/partitions
over a fast switched network
=============================================================================