[WBEL-users] How can I cloning a freshly tweaked system?

[Andrew Vong]

Dear All,

I've installed WBEL on a couple of servers and have spent some time and 
effort configuring them and tweaking them. Right now, they're running 
sweet! :)

Here's my concerns and motivation. I'm afraid that a perfectly running 
system would one day just decide to die on me or worse, my server gets 
compromised or some disaster could/would strike me when I least expect it. 
I'd like to be prepared for it.

Rather than reformat, reinstall, configure and re-tweak the system which 
could take me a good couple of weeks or so, can I somehow make a clone of 
the HDD of a freshly installed and fully tweaked & optimized WBEL server? 
Then store the clone/image somewhere else. That way, when disaster strikes, 
I can just duplicate the clone back onto a new HDD slot it back into the 
server, copy latest backed-up /home files into it and I'll be up and 
running again.

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Andrew