sumardi

# New repository
mkdir <repo> && cd <repo>
git init
git remote add –f <name> <url>
git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo some/dir/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
echo another/sub/tree >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull <remote> <branch>

# Existing repository

makuk66

#!/bin/bash

VM=$1
size=`sudo lvs -o lv_size --unit=b --noheadings /dev/vg_vms/ubuntu-base-vm | sed 's/^ *//'`
echo size=$size
sudo lvcreate --size=$size --name=vms-$VM vg_vms
sudo virt-resize --expand sda1 \
    /dev/vg_vms/ubuntu-base-vm /dev/vg_vms/vms-$VM
mkdir -p tmp
virsh dumpxml ubuntu-base-vm > tmp/ubuntu-base-vm.xml

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs