Mirroring my macbook on my iMac

Hey all,
I've recently spent an age wiping and reinstalling my macbook with my music software and want to put this same image on my imac. I know about net restores etc. but this is a 200gig file so could be a problem. Whats the best way to get this image onto the imac? The imac is already up and running so its not out of the box and i would like to format to zeros before imaging.
suggestions welcome.
thanks

Anyone?

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