Unix Revolution

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 (4724464...