The easiest way to migrate to another (bigger) hard drive?

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Fri Apr 30 07:20:15 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:09, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 15:05, WipeOut wrote:
> > Rick Stevens wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Or (on the existing system):
> > >
> > >     # cd /
> > >     # tar cvpP -x /dev -x /proc -f /dev/st0 *
> > >
> > > And on the new system, install the the system and
> > >
> > >     # tar xvpPkf /dev/st0
> > >
> > > It's clunky, but it works--assuming the new system is already bootable.
> > >  
> > >
> > > Yup.  Sure is.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Rick,
> > 
> > This may actually work..
> > 
> > Just one issue unless I am missing something..
> > 
> > In the restore you used a "k" option to keep existing files and not 
> > overwrite them.. Does this mean that for example all the existing files 
> > in /etc would not be restored? which would mean all user accounts and 
> > custom settings would not be available on the new drive.. Also all logs 
> > /var/log/* would not be restored either..
> > 
> > I guess they would have to be restored manually.. :(
> > 
> > Later..
> 
> I wrote a script to back up a system's user accounts (with passwords)
> and mail spools. It does not attempt to back up other settings however.
> You can find it at ftp://people.redhat.com/migrate_users.sh I made it in
> such a way that you must read the comments inside it before it will
> work. (HINT).

Oops...

ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/migrate_users.sh

(Note to self: Learn to proofread *twice* before sending)

-- 
Chris Kloiber






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