[Bglug] cloning Linux to SSD for increased speed

[Tyler MacDonald]

I vote for: rsync -SHav --no-i-r --delete --progress

Uses more RAM, but if the copy gets interrupted, you can resume it, and you
don't absolutely *have* to take everything offline to do the clone -- you
could, if you really needed to, keep the origin system up and running while
it copies for hours, *then* take the old drive offline and do one more
rsync to sync up what changed during the copy.

   - Tyler



On 8 November 2016 at 13:33, William Park <whp.park at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:50:23AM -0500, Logan Streondj wrote:
> > Important to note that cp -Rv isn't good enough for cloning Linux,
> > doesn't preserve the permissions properly. need to use rsync -av
>
> cp -a is what you want.
>
> > - From what I read the idea is to clone over the system files, and put
> > the Users and documents over onto the hdd -- so as not to wear down
> > the SSD with many writes.
>
> That too strict.  You shouldn't use SSD for swap, though.
> --
> William
>
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