On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 00:21:16 +0000 Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/5/18 4:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 10/6/18 7:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> Sorry, I wanted to mention that both these machines are Dell XPS 13s, one older generation, the other new and pulling out the HDD is a lot of work. So I was wanting to avoid that. > > > > OK... All of my laptops that I've had just needed 4 screws removed. > > > > Well the flash drive method works just as well then. May take longer, of course, > > depending on the > > size of your flash drive v.s. the size of your /home. > > The best way is to do it over the network via rsync. My guess is that > you're on a gigabit network so it shouldn't take all that long, and > probably shorter than using a USB-based drive. > > I'd set up the new machine as an rsync server with an /etc/rsyncd.conf > file that looks like: > > [home-backup] > comment = Copy of old /home volume > path = /home > uid = root > gid = root > read only = no > hosts allow = 192.168.1/24 (or whatever your network is) > > Then "systemctl start rsyncd" to start the rsync server on the new > machine. Test the transfer by running this on the OLD machine: > > sudo rsync -avXA --dry-run /home/* ip-address-of-new-machine::home-backup > > That'd show you what WOULD happen without it actually transferring any > files (and it'd be relatively fast). If it looks like it would do what > you want, then: > > sudo rsync -aXA /home/* ip-address-of-new-machine::home-backup > > to do the actual copy. Thanks, there is only one user (me) with same name, UID, etc on the machine. My monthly quota is 400GB. However, do I need to go all through the network? At the very least, should I not be able to go through the router and back without actually using the network? Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
