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Hello i have a machine A with 2 disks 1 et 2 running Debian Jessie on 1 is the system and the boot and the swap on 2 different partitions like /home /opt ETC..... i have a machine B with 1 disk running kali-linux and *100G free* Can i clone the disk 1 of machine A on the 100G free on machine B with rsync? If it is possible, how to do that? Many thanks TG -------------- next part --------------

...and 100G free > > Can i clone the disk 1 of machine A on the 100G free on machine B with rsync? > > If it is possible, how to do that? Yes, it's easy to do, I do that for the primary backup on all my systems. Lets say you are doing it from machine a, and backing up to directory /backup_a on b. Logged in as root then you could do it with : rsync -avH --delete --exclude-from=/etc/rsync_excludes / root at b:/backup_a/ -a means "archive" and sets several parameters, v simply makes things verbose, H means correctly handle hard linked files. --delete means delete files from the...

...of machine A on the 100G free on machine B >> with rsync? >> >> If it is possible, how to do that? > > Yes, it's easy to do, I do that for the primary backup on all my > systems. > > Lets say you are doing it from machine a, and backing up to > directory /backup_a on b. Logged in as root then you could do it > with : rsync -avH --delete --exclude-from=/etc/rsync_excludes / > root at b:/backup_a/ -a means "archive" and sets several parameters, v > simply makes things verbose, H means correctly handle hard linked > files. --delete means d...