Looking for some suggestions and thoughts.
I am upgrading the OS on a system with older hardware that I have, it is
currently running Fedora 16 and I'm looking to upgrade it to Fedora 23.
The system has 4 SATA 1.0 interfaces, two are are in use for the two
removable disks in the front of the case, the other two are inside the
case and although not impossible to access they are a little difficult
to access.
The original system has 2 disks with multiple partitions, each partition
is in a RAID-1 configuration, the new system has the same basic
configuration but was built on different hardware (at a physically
different location). Considering that system partitions are relatively
static I've made a copy of those in the event I forgot something that I
need, what I'm trying to figure out is how to deal with the user
partition (/home) since this partition is very dynamic.
My thoughts are to first boot the new disks in the old system making
sure everything is stable then either
1) break the mirror insert one of the old disks into the system and
mount the /home partition someplace and simply copy the files, pull the
old disk and insert the new disk then rebuild the mirror
or
2) connect one of the old disks to the now new system via a USB to SATA
adapter (note the machine only has usb 1.1) mount the disk and copy the
data over.
or
3) open the system up and connect one of the old disks to one of the
internal SATA connectors mount the disk and copy the files over.
or
4) ????
It's not a huge amount of data as I'm only looking at a little less than
25GB of data to copy over.
If it matters the system is a dual Opteron 275 system with 16GB of ram,
its more than sufficient for what its doing which is why I'm not looking
to upgrade.
Thanks, Jeff
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