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Copy Sparse files over network

I have a few physical nodes which I ran KVM guests on.  Occasionally I need to rebuild the host, so I want to copy the VM from one physical node to another.  I use RAW (sparse) disk images and standard scp would copy the image in it's entirety.  Until... I found rsync -S ;-)

rsync -Surpolvv * usgtst92:/var/lib/libvirt/images/

*** SOURCE ***
usgtst91 images]# for IMG in `find . -name "*.img"`; do qemu-img info $IMG; done
image: ./DVGLLVUSGTST82/DVGLLVUSGTST82.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 44G (47244640256 bytes)
disk size: 12G
image: ./DVGLLVUSGTST81/DVGLLVUSGTST81.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 44G (47244640256 bytes)
disk size: 4.0G
image: ./DVGLLVUSGTST83/DVGLLVUSGTST83.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 44G (47244640256 bytes)
disk size: 3.8G

*** DESTINATION ***
usgtst92 images]# for IMG in `find . -name "*.img"`; do qemu-img info $IMG; done
image: ./DVGLLVUSGTST83/DVGLLVUSGTST83.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 44G (47244640256 bytes)
disk size: 3.2G
image: ./DVGLLVUSGTST81/DVGLLVUSGTST81.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 44G (47244640256 bytes)
disk size: 3.4G
image: ./DVGLLVUSGTST82/DVGLLVUSGTST82.img
file format: raw
virtual size: 44G (47244640256 bytes)
disk size: 11G
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  1. Chan PKNovember 24, 2017 at 1:16 PM

    This is the simplest, clearest explanation of this topic I have found. Thanks!
    linux scp

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