Re: [SLE] rsync procedural thing - OT?

On Monday 06 February 2006 08:23, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 23:59 -0500, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people
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Then what about /proc ? Does that get copied over? and should it be?

I am only a basic CLI guy.

If anyone has any better solutions I would like to hear them.

A better procedure would be to:

1. boot the a rescue system using either the install CD or DVD
2. create two mount points
mkdir /old
mkdir /new

Hello Ken, thanks for replying. For my understanding, Please excuse my
ignorance. These are not "real" directories, right ? They are in ram disk or
something and go away when you close down the system?

3. mount old root and new root
mount /dev/hda2 /old
mount /dev/hdb2 /new

OK, won't need a password for that right?

4. copy the data from the old disk to the new disk
rsync -varpltz /old/ /new/

should do the trick. You always want to copy your system in quite mode
(not running) which is what booting to the rescue CD/DVD does. This also
takes care of the /proc problem as it should not be copied, only the
directory created. /proc is dynamic and should be empty on a system that
is not running. You can check this by looking at /old/proc when booted
in rescue mode, the only thing on my laptop is proc/bus/usb which is
empty. Start up rsync let it copy a few files and stop it and check /new
that files/dirs are being created as you expect them to be.

OK, how do I stop and restart rsync, and will it pick up where it left off?,
and how would I look at what is there?

If they are
then vi /new/etc/fstab and make any necessary changes. The last thing
needed is to modify grub on the bootable first disk to add the new disk
as a boot option. Also when creating partitions on the new disk create a
swap partition just in case the old disk gets completely trashed.

Re: the /swap partition which on the old disk is hda3, should I create it when
I format the new hard drive?, before I rsync everything over to the drive? I
stated in my message that I was going to format the new drive only, no
partitions, rsync doesn't create a real partition right?

Hope this helps. If you have problems let us know what you were doing
when the problem occurred, and be very precise with all of the
steps/syntax used.

Yes it helps. Sounds a lot less complicated.

Bob S.

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