Hi Shawn, Thanks again for the tips. I am doing a fresh install on the empty drive in the new PC. I'll use rdiff-backup to back up /home on the old drive to an external HD. Then I'll just copy everything from the external HD to the newly created /home on the new PC. This way the HD in the old PC will remain intact, as you suggest.
Robin On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > When I'm upgrading my boxes, I like to just buy a new drive and do a fresh > install there. Then hook up the old drive (I have an external USB adapter > for this) and copy over the data I need. This approach *is* a bit more > expensive, but it buys me a large safety margin in that if the new install > borks on me, I still have my old environment as a backup. I'll reuse drives > after a reasonable amount of time, and having a couple of spare drives > around for whatever purpose is always handy. But this isn't the "right" > choice for everyone, I know... > > Good luck with the upgrade/migration. > > Shawn > > > On 10-09-20 11:50 AM, Richard Carter wrote: > >> Shawn, >> >> Thanks for your reply. Judging from what you wrote I believe I have >> just a "typical desktop/workstation" with no special features of the >> type you mention. So I guess I'll copy over just /home. >> >> Robin >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Shawn <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> You haven't given us enough information. If this is a typical >> desktop/workstation, then copying /home may be all you need to do. >> >> But, if you have a special setup, there may be more. For instance, >> if you have setup Apache on the old box for development purposes, >> you may want to move over your customizations (if any) for Apache. >> If you have set up revision control, you would need to explore how >> to migrate your repositories, etc. >> >> In my case, I *do* have those sort of specialized setups. But when >> I upgrade or install a new box, I just recreate them as needed - it >> only takes a few minutes, and helps keep me in practice and the >> knowledge fresh. :) >> >> HTH. >> >> Shawn >> >> >> >> On 10-09-20 11:31 AM, Richard Carter wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I have 2 desk top PCs both with AMD64 processors: "new" with AMD >> Athlon >> II X4 635 and no OS, "old" with AMD Athlon 64 2800+ and debian >> 5. I'm >> going to install debian 5 for AMD on "new" and I'm usure about >> which >> files from "old" I should copy over to "new". I'll certainly >> copy /home >> but what about /etc, /var and /usr? >> >> Robin >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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