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.
Source Files
Filename | Size | Changed | Actions |
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dolly-0.57.tar.bz2 | 000001861118.2 KB | 1365423007about 5 years ago | ![]() |
dolly.c.patch | 00000010461.02 KB | 1365510717about 5 years ago | ![]() |
dolly.conf | 0000000127127 Bytes | 1365423221about 5 years ago | ![]() |
dolly.html | 000002029719.8 KB | 1365423232about 5 years ago | ![]() |
dolly.spec | 00000021002.05 KB | 1365509396about 5 years ago | ![]() |