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I wasn't aware that
rsyncalso copied system files. I'm curious to know why my method is unsafe. The only potential problem I see with what I did is mixing upifandofindd.Your method is safer imo as long as you get the dd command right. Because afterwards you'll have two bootable copies of your system. If you mess up resizing the filesystem on the new drive, just dd again from the old one.
Glad you figured it out.
rsync also gives you two bootable copies of your system. Even better, it gives you a checksum based copy of your files including permissions.
Safe/unsafe might be the wrong word, but rsync is resumable and also copies permissions for example. dd is more like the brute force method of data transfer.
Pause and resume are nice but
ddalso gives you the permissions. It copies everything, byte for byte, hence why it's a "low-level copy"