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Re: [opensuse] Ideas on disk cloning?
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:30:51 -0400
- Message-id: <468A336B.5080802@xxxxxxxxxx>
Anders Norrbring wrote:
> I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to another,
> but that only works when the target is equally big or larger than the
> source.
>
> Is there any easy way to do it from a 13% filled 60GB disk to a remote
> disk that's only 16GB?
>
> Obviously dd won't work...
Any method that can copy all the files, such as cp -a, tar, rsync etc.
should be able to do it.
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> I usually use dd and ssh to clone disks from one machine to another,
> but that only works when the target is equally big or larger than the
> source.
>
> Is there any easy way to do it from a 13% filled 60GB disk to a remote
> disk that's only 16GB?
>
> Obviously dd won't work...
Any method that can copy all the files, such as cp -a, tar, rsync etc.
should be able to do it.
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