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While cloning is never a real-time operation, synchronization can be. For system architectures that require high availability, or scalability, you will need some form of [[synchronization]] for various components of the system (disk, databases, etc.)

One way to do this on Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu) is to use <code>dpkg</code> get/set-selections in combination with <code>apt-get</code> using it's dselect-upgrade option: