Re: Moving Debian from one HD to another

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Billy Chow wrote:

> Dear Debianers,
> 
> Is there a way to *safely* move/copy a complete debian installation
> from one hard disk to another (both formatted as ext2)?  Can tar do
> it?  Any pitfalls?

I have my old R6 system backed up in a tgz file, and have put it back on 
one drive or another several times. One of the things that allows me to 
do this is that I boot up with loadlin not lilo so I don't have to worry 
about mbr problems.
Two things you will need to do. When you tar the system, you will want to 
use two options. First you want the option that forces tar to follow all 
symlinks. Second you want the option that maintains the leading slash on 
all path names. You will need to look these up, as I don't remember what 
their option letters are.

Good Luck,

Dwarf

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