[ale] copying data between 2 ubuntu vm's

[Erik Mathis]

Rsync is the is by far the easiest thing to do. If both of these vm's
are far away, use compression. There is even a webmin mod for it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/syncmin/

-Erik-

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Wolf Halton <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
> scp is pretty good, as long as all are on public IPs
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
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>> On 09/23/2011 07:31 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>> > Friends:
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>> > I have a VM1 which is 23GB with 2GB of swap.
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>> > I have another VM2 which is 21GB with 2GB of swap.
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>> > What is the best and efficient way of copying the data from VM2 to VM1 ?
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>> > Time is not a factor but reliably copy is.
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>> Probably rsync, but scp, rcp, ftp, sftp or any other "copy" tool of your
>> choice will work.  I'd avoid CIFS.
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>> Treat each VM just like a regular machine. If you've setup a VM-only
>> switch, using that instead of the public IP would probably be faster,
>> but if the VM virtual-disks are physically on the same HDD, that will be
>> the limiting factor.
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>> You could setup NFS between the systems or use iSCSI between them too,
>> if you like. Probably overkill when rsync is so much easier.
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