Matthew Cengia <mattcen@gmail.com> wrote:
I've not used CloneZilla before, but if you've only got to do this once, I'd probably just do it with dd and netcat:
If you don't mind creating partitions you can do it more efficiently with rsync by running a live distribution from a CD/DVD/USB device on the destination machine, allowing an ssh connection to be established. Then create the partitions and file systems, mount them and use rsync to transfer the files across. I've done this for backup. Instead of excluding, e.g., /proc and /sys, I just bind mount the actual file systems on the machine to be backed up, then run rsync. It's a little more work than copying the drives themselves, but it only copies actual files and you don't have to reboot the system to be copied. File modes and ownership are preserved by the -a option to rsync.