aurfalien wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > >> On 7/9/12, Micky <mickylmartin at gmail.com> wrote: >>> The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an >>> rsync >>> and then reinstallation of boot-loader. >>> It works always if you know how it's done. >> >> The problem I found with rsync is that it is very slow when there are >> a lot of small files. Any idea how this can be improved on or is that >> a fundamental limit? > > I do dump/restores fir this sort of thing. Depends on if you want everything, and of course, if there's a hardware difference, you need to chroot (assuming you rsync'd to special directories, like /new and /boot/new), and do some mounts and chroot, and rebuild the initrd.img mark