Copying a system from one machine to another using rsync at runlevel 1
This is a Centos 4.x system running bind/named, the eth0 is excluded since it is the interface they will be communicating on
rsync --delete -nav / 192.168.1.100:/ --exclude-from=- <<HERE /sys /root /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/fstab /etc/mtab /var/named/chroot/proc /var/named/chroot/dev /dev /proc HERE