> >> I have a stand alone system with two drives / and /home on one and /var >> on the the other. I'd like to backup the complete system to a usb drive. >> I've tried dd however since it copies over everything, even empty space >> it didn't seem very practical since for instance root only has 10GiB out >> of 70 used. Would rsync be a suitable application to use for this or >> will it only work over a network? > > See http://edacval.wikidot.com/backup-whole-system-with-rsync
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