Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
At 07:20 AM 9/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
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>Is there a simple way to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?
>
>On our Debian system, we have two hard drives. The primary drive has the
>root directory and swap partition and is bootable. It also contains the
>various Debian software packages, programs, libraries, etc. The second
>drive just has the /home directory tree.
>
>Our problem is that the primary drive is starting to make some "expensive
>sounding noises" and may not last much longer. We would like simply to
>migrate the entire system to the second hard drive and disconnect the
>first drive. Is there an easy way to do this without reinstalling the
>entire system and fixing up all the configuration files?
>
>Thanks,
>
>// Tim Egbert
>// Bioengineering Lab, Anesthesiology Department
>// University of Utah Health Sciences Center
>
>
>
I have done this under other flavors of UNIX by doing a full dump
to tape, then doing a fresh install of just a base system, then
doing a full restore from tape. As I recall, some of the symbolic
links didn't come back right and I had to tweak them manually, but
I got the systems up and running without too much pain.
I am interested to hear others' opinions about this.
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