Take the 2-minute tour ×  I am using Scalr and need to clone a
live farm.  I see the option to do this but I am apprehensive,
can I clone my live running instance safely without interrupting
it?  The documentation is a little sparse on whether the target
farm is active or not or what the consequences might be or if
there are any prerequisites.  Call me cynical but it seems to
good to be true if I can just click "cone" then sit back and pat
myself on the back.  share|improve this question add comment  1
Answer  You can safely clone a live/production farm in Scalr.
When you clone the farm, you are really just copying the farm's
configuration (the roles, scaling settings, etc...), so the
running instances are not affected.  Cloning is a great feature
in Scalr that has saved me plenty of time, but be aware that you
might have a little work to do on your clone once you've pressed
the button. It depends on what your cloning, but as an example
you may need to setup a new virtual host and domain, or restore
some data