[CentOS-virt] compress raw image
Izaac
izaac at setec.org
Thu Aug 4 16:59:24 EDT 2011
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 04:35:20PM +0200, Rainer Traut wrote:
> I need to transfer a local raw image to another datacenter.
> Is there a way to achieve good compression of this image, I heard of
> tools overwriting unused space with zeros. Is this a good idea?
You're talking about sparse files? You probably want to use rsync with
--sparse to keep the file from inflating on the far side. Something
like:
rsync -ctrvlzSP source.raw user at destination:source.raw
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