On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 12:38 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I recently asked about copying a running system to a new drive.
>
> As a postscript, I'm wondering if it would have been preferable
> to run the machine under a Live OS, and simply copy the root partition
> to the new drive?
> Eg while running under the LiveOS,
> # mkdir /mnt/old /mnt/new
> # mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/old
> # mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/new
> # cp -avx /mnt/old /mnt/new
> or
> # rsync -ax --progress /mnt/old /mnt/new
When copying systems I developed a preference for cpio; fewer problems
handling weird inode types.
My typical recipe is:
- rescue boot the new system and create my desired disk partitioning
- decide what top level directories I want duplicated on the new system
- iterate through them:
for i in bin boot lib etc .... ; do
mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/$i
ssh root@$OLDSYSTEM "cd /$i && find . -xdev -print0 | cpio --null
-oaVc" | (cd /mnt/sysimage/$i && cpio --no-absolute-filenames -imVdc )
done
- make any adjustments that might necessary in the configuration
- if this was a copy of a running system I might quiesce the original,
do a final rsync of data that might have changed between now and when I
made the cpio copy
- grub-install (or equivalent)
- release the hounds.
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