4 Aug
2011
4 Aug
'11
8:59 p.m.
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@destination:source.raw
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