> Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I had read that if you don't copy
> the files in /dev, udev won't mount properly on the machine you're
> cloning to and all hell will break lose. Also, iirc, I believe I
> tarred a running machine (including /dev, excluding /sys) and the
> clone was successful.
>
> Any thoughts?

One other way: mirror the boot/root/install devices
(maybe a single partition). You can make, sync,
and drop the mirror, install grub on the new mbr
and have a clone of the system (basically you'd
be in the same situaiton as if the primary drive
of a mirrored setup croaked).

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