clone ubuntu installation

[Matthew Gillen]

ref wrote:
> The problem with this is that it does not deal with the configs that may
> go along with the packages, and that is something that has bugged me for
> a while. For example, say I have compizFusion on my machine, and I want
> to clone the machine. if I use the above, I will end up with a generic
> set of default settings in compizFusion, not all the tweaks and
> adjustments that I spent months fine tuning. This is also true of say
> apache settings, or mysql settings or php settings, or in fact and
> 'server' type application. I wish there was something out there that
> could do that ... other than 'dd' ;)

If the packages are all the same version, then just copying /etc over should
be sufficient for all configuration that isn't in your $HOME dir.  (I usually
save off /etc and /var when upgrading my home server).

YMMV,
Matt