[PLUG] Move home directory to new HD

Chuck Hast wchast at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 16:02:21 UTC 2015


Thank you for the info Rich, sounds logical.


On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, Chuck Hast wrote:
>
> > I put a 1 tb HD in it and am going to move my present work to it so I can
> > refurb my X200
>
> Chuck,
>
>    My non-professional opinion: back up all partitions/directories on an
> external drive using rsync (with the appropriate options it will preserve
> all attributes). Then partition and format your new drive and install your
> favorite flavor of linux. Now, restore those partitions/directories you
> backed up onto the new drive (also using rsync). You still have the
> originals on the older machine just in case.
>
>    I use dirvish to back up my server/workstation and have used rsync to
> do a
> bare-metal restore onto a new hard drive. Dirvish uses rsync under the hood
> so I know this is a good approach.
>
>    The pros here will correct me.
>
> Rich
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