Assuming you're dealing with a POSIX-style filesystem. If you're cloning a
Windows installation, for example, this is unlikely to work. In that case
though, I recommend investigating ntfsclone (part of the ntfsprogs package on
Debian). AIUI it only copies the populated parts of the ntfs data without
messing with it too much.
Jason White <[email protected]> wrote:
>Matthew Cengia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've not used CloneZilla before, but if you've only got to do this
>once,
>> I'd probably just do it with dd and netcat:
>
>If you don't mind creating partitions you can do it more efficiently
>with
>rsync by running a live distribution from a CD/DVD/USB device on the
>destination machine, allowing an ssh connection to be established. Then
>create
>the partitions and file systems, mount them and use rsync to transfer
>the
>files across.
>
>I've done this for backup. Instead of excluding, e.g., /proc and /sys,
>I just
>bind mount the actual file systems on the machine to be backed up, then
>run
>rsync.
>
>It's a little more work than copying the drives themselves, but it only
>copies
>actual files and you don't have to reboot the system to be copied. File
>modes
>and ownership are preserved by the -a option to rsync.
>
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