Comments on: Howto: rsync a system between drives

By: Anton Eliasson

Anton Eliasson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:47:57 +0000

I’m not entirely sure what you mean by your statements about Clonezilla – you don’t have to work directly partition-partition, you may just as well copy and compress the entire partition into a file, then swap out the harddrives and reverse the process. You will then have a clone of it. Also I like to use the -h switch with rsync to output lower numbers and higher prefixes, but I guess you have your reasons not to

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A console-only Ubuntu system « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:40:27 +0000

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By: mardson

mardson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:48:23 +0000

Look into partimage. I believe it has pretty awesome understanding of underlying file systems, and will intelligently consume the media (i.e. you don’t end up wasting disk space like i used to with dd … i’m not the brightest ). Also, you can gzip or bz2 the files on the fly; pretty cool stuff.

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By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:29:47 +0000

While I’ve done this before across machines, the reinstallation of GRUB is always a headache. Sometimes it will work, some times it won’t, some times it’ll say it worked but it really won’t… live CDs haven’t been able to help me in this regard either. The SimplyMEPIS LiveCD has a tool to reinstall GRUB (on Debian-based systems at least) which has served me well in the past to reinstall the GRUB bootloader when GRUB was unable to install itself.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:44:01 +0000

I have used rsync this way several times, works great. You need to be careful with trailing slashes like mentioned above. Before doing the actual sync I will do a –dry-run[-n], just in case there is a typo somewhere or did not use trail slashes correctly.