[CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

[John Austin]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 09:00 -0700, 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.
> 
+1

John