dolly
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.
- Developed at network:cluster
- Sources inherited from project openSUSE:Factory
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derived packages
- Download package
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Checkout Package
osc -A https://api.opensuse.org checkout devel:ARM:Factory:Contrib:ILP32/dolly && cd $_
- Create Badge
Source Files
Filename | Size | Changed |
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dolly-0.63.1.tar.gz | 0000036571 35.7 KB | |
dolly.changes | 0000001885 1.84 KB | |
dolly.conf | 0000000140 140 Bytes | |
dolly.md | 0000021128 20.6 KB | |
dolly.spec | 0000002626 2.56 KB |
Revision 1 (latest revision is 5)
dolly can be used to distribute images to a bunch of machines in a tree like structure
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