Re: [Hampshire] rsync but for block devices.

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Author: Daniel Pope
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] rsync but for block devices.
On 20/07/10 12:09, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Are there any tools in Linux that can do what I want?
> As a work around I might try converting the block device into a file
> on the source machine and then rsync will work on it.


If you're happy to compile it yourself, there is a patch maintained in
the rsync repositories that will let you work on block devices.

http://bit.ly/aURTkf

This needs to be compiled on both client and server iirc.

Dan