Alternate backup suggestion

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I am doing the tar option like i put here:

Tutorial: Creating a Mirror Copy of IPFire System Disk

Nice, ill have to try this out! I’ve used tar in the past to transfer between machines which doesn’t require expanding the file system. From source machine: tar -cvpzf /root/backup.tar.gz --directory=/ --exclude=./proc --exclude=./sys --exclude=./boot --exclude=./bin --exclude=./dev --exclude=./lib --exclude=./etc/default --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./etc/fstab --exclude=./run --exclude=./root/backup.tar.gz --one-file-system . On destination machine: tar xvpzf /root/backup.tar.gz –C ./ --nume…