I've been trying to understand what has changed from Debian 8 to Debian 9 in regards to the vmlinuz file.
When I backup my VMs every night, I use rsync to copy the files to a backup server with rsync and since some files were big sparse files, I use the sparse flag (rsync -avlHS) to 'handle sparse files efficiently'.
When copying Debian 8 VMs, all is working fine when restoring them, however, when backing up Debian 9 VMs, it corrupts the vmlinuz file, making the servers unbootable due to
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Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 4.9.0-3-amd64'
root (hd1)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-3-amd64 root=/dev/xvda2 ro console=hvc0
Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure
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Any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Thomas