disaster recovery Q's
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Nov 13 15:12:25 UTC 2009
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009, Tim wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 00:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Are there any hard links in the system anyplace besides the /etc tree?
>> The resume partition (if you use one) is set in the initrd, I don't know
>> what method it uses to define the partition (device name, UUID, label).
>
> I don't use one, Tim. This machine never sleeps
>
> Next question that I don't recall seeing an answer go by in this madhouse,
> (the machine is currently busier than a one legged man in an ass-kicking
> contest, kmail even went away by itself a few minutes ago) when the copying
> is all done using rsync -avcAX, ( I didn't have enough space free to use dd)
> I presume that I'll need to do a "grub-install /dev/sde", at least that is
> the plan. Then fix the /etc/fstab file on the new drive, powerdown, pull the
> sata0 cable and move the sata5 cable to sata0, and it should then boot from
> this new drive.
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
Don't do stuff like this on Friday the 13th.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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