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Answer by Lars Wiegman for Alternative to rsync for file level cloning?

With current tools like Partclone and Partimage, both used by CloneZilla, it isn't possible to copy between two different file system formats on a block level.Instead you could try the ditto command in...

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Answer by Majenko for Alternative to rsync for file level cloning?

Have you considered tar of all things? Sounds silly, I know. Try this:$ cd /path/to/my/source/files$ tar -cf - . | tar -xvf - -C /path/to/my/destination/filesIt should perform surprisingly well with...

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Alternative to rsync for file level cloning?

I have 500gb of files that I want to copy to a temporary drive and then back.I would like to be able to do this as fast as possible.I checked out doing a block level clone, which is nice and fast (a...

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