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.

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