26 Nov
2012
26 Nov
'12
11:26 p.m.
Michael Lindner writes:
Clonezilla has "smarts" to try not to copy empty space etc. Good if you are going to do many.
Stick an lzop or gzip --fast -c in the pipeline, and it'll run-length empty space (i.e. zeroes). Of course, unallocated filesystem blocks and partition blocks probably aren't all zeroes on a used disk, but when you start down that road, you get to the point where you simply manually make the partitions and filesystems on the far end, and copy just the files using rsync.
Could you just remove the target drive and put it in a usb dock?
+1 for target SCSI mode ;-)