On 22 February 2010 16:49, daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 February 2010 05:34, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk >> to a newly created one. > > you could dd it too, and then mount the new system and remove stuff in > /proc and /dev you don't want. > > This could avoid any problems of your rsync options. Then in a chroot > reinstall grub on the partition. > > I never tried this, but to my mind it should work, and it's faster than rsync. > > ~daid >
Sorry. I should note: It *can* be faster than rsync. If they disk has a ton of white space, then it could very well be much slower. But say for a drive that is mostly at capacity, then dd should easily be a few times faster. As a side note, I tried dd piped through ssh and my router (with firewall) was resetting the connection after around 4GB, and I don't know of anyway to resume a dd. There should be ways to ping the ssh to keep the connection alive, but I never tried that. But if you really want an exact copy of a system, I think dd could be the way to go. You can always rsync at the end to confirm. ~daid
