Re: Backing up whole Debian installation from laptop to laptop via ssh?
On Mon 14 Nov 2022 at 14:53:34 (+0000), Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> I have an old Thinkpad on its last legs which I cannot shutdown (long
> story). Then I have a slightly better Thinkpad with similar hard
> drive. Debian is split into three partitions (root. home and swap)/
>
> I'll recreate a similar partitioning from a live usb on the newer
> laptop, then I'll mount the root partition, connect to the old laptop
> via ssh, copy the data on the new drive, reinstall grub and modify
> fstab.
>
> Will this work?
You should check that the newer laptop boots the same way (looks like
BIOS) and that you're partitioning the same way (probably MBR).
Otherwise:
UEFI booting would require an ESP (and complicate setting up Grub),
GPT partitioning (with BIOS booting) would require a BIOS Boot partition.
Cheers,
David.
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