take a look at this one http://relax-and-recover.org/
the RPM is in EPEL rear.noarch
it should give you the best of both worlds.
the problem with using dd is you occasionally get bit drift which can
cause you problems latter. and Rsync wont install grub on your mbr or
format the partitions. rear will do both and you shouldn't have to
worry about bit drift issues if you use it instead of dd.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Lamar Owen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 01/30/2013 12:16 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>
>> One more minor detail I forgot. Full install of SL is just a few GB, if
>> you clone by rsync, takes a few minutes to copy. With "dd", it will take
>> hours to clone a 3TB/4TB disk.
>
> Clonezilla is smart enough to not copy free space on filesystems that
> partimage supports.
>
> The dd and ddrescue methods, of course, copy everything, and for really
> large disks take a long time.
>
> An rsync copy is not a clone, in the strict sense, but a copy.  A clone is
> bit-for-bit identical.  There are advantages and disadvantages to each
> method.