Re: [tlug] Program to Mirror Individual Files?

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:25 AM, CL <az.4tlug@example.com> wrote:
> Question:  Does anyone know of a program that can be run from CD, DVD,
> USB drive that permits the mirroring of individual files, rather than
> partitions or whole disks?
>
cp, scp, rsync

>  I am trying to copy three VirtualBox .vdi
> disks between HDDs without the rest of the contents of the original HDD,
> which is my "old" Kubuntu 13.10 installation. Copying between disks as
> Root seems to corrupt the .vdi files.  I have not yet tried importing
> the three VBox installations, though. If others have transferred VBoxes
> between HDDs, I'd like to hear what worked for you.
>
VDIs ar not stand-alone, there is a XML description to them in another
file and sometimes paths are mixed-up.

That is why you need to at least import VDI on the new machine, it
will map the UUID of the VDI properly (unless you copied the original
in the first place and now have VDI with the same UUID but different
content.

Also with VDIs, make sure you get all the snapshots as well, they may
be in another directory..

Kalin.