[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Robert Brockway]

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On 5 Jan 2003, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> I would also use dump/restore, or rsync, or (in a pinch) even tar.  It

Everyone else has covered the basics of the operation well (I've been
offline for most of the day unfortunately).  Anyway, I was to say I agree
with Jason - I prefer the use of dump/restore for this sort of operation.
Rsync is good and tar will indeed do the job without a problem (just look
at your switches).

If you're using tar make sure you don't copy /proc and don't bother with
/tmp, /var/tmp, your cdrom or floppy as these may get caught up in a
blanket tar of the system.

Info on tarring up & moving single filesystems on one system can be found
at http://robert.timetraveller.org/tips.

I again reiterate my preference for dump/restore.  Unfortunetaly reiserfs
doesn't support any utilities like dump/restore but this is unlikely to
effect you :)  For those interested, xfs has xfsdump & xfsrestore (such
utilities are common in the unix world).

Cheers,
	-Rob

-- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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