Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen's questions

We have an Ubuntu server vmware-instance which appears to be installed with the 64-bit version.

Unfortunately we now want to move it to a 32-bit only host, so the current installation will not run. The installation is rather tweaked, so I'd really, really prefer to have the current installation converted instead of doing a fresh installation.

Is there a reliable way to get 32-bit versions of everything and convert the kernel, or should I completely drop the idea?

Thanks for all help.

EDIT: The primary purpose of this Linux instance was to provide a CVS repository. After careful consideration we decided to migrate from CVS to git instead of doing the 64->32 bit exercise.

I have a vmware player on Ubuntu 9.04 which works well with an XP in a virtual machine.

Now I want to have a nightly backup of this vmware instance so I thought I just use rsync to keep them updated. It appears that rsync thinks almost all files have changed even if I try to use snapshots (workstation) to keep the changes to a minimum.

What is the appropriate way to do this, and what rsync argument works best?

EDIT: I know the vmware instance must be shut down.