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

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.

- aurf