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Post #351,554
by jake123
12/1/11 1:18:49 PM
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New Pre-unity ubuntu
Yeah, that's the basic outline of my plan in a nutshell, just hoping to find out any gotchas I might run into.

Any insights into possibly using dump for this? That was recommended by a colleague... use dump over SSH to put it onto another machine, and then the same thing back onto the new hd.
Post #351,556
by folkert
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12/1/11 1:50:41 PM
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New I've stayed away from "dump" for many years.
I never had a "nonrecoverable" from it, but I've had enough bad experience, as I'd rather not chance anything anymore.

Personally, I'd make a loopback writeable filesystem on another machine and and rsync everything from the laptop to the loopback filesystem.

Then when you've installed stuff grabs the stuff you need from the loopback filesystem. Or transfer the loopback filesystem to the new drive and mount it there and go and grab things as you need it.

There are indeed so many ways you can proceed, its not even funny. Easiest plan would be to have the drives both spinning on the same machine and copy from there.

But, anyway.
Post #351,558
by jake123
12/1/11 4:20:31 PM
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New Cool, thanks for the heads up.
     Linux system transfer question - (jake123) - (9) - Dec. 1, 2011, 10:01:11 AM EST
         Possible different solution - (drook) - (4) - Dec. 1, 2011, 10:17:50 AM EST
             Only has USB 1.1 - (jake123) - (3) - Dec. 1, 2011, 10:32:21 AM EST
                 I thought firewire could handle that bandwidth? -NT - (drook) - (2) - Dec. 1, 2011, 11:28:30 AM EST
                     Re: I thought firewire could handle that bandwidth? - (jake123) - (1) - Dec. 1, 2011, 11:34:47 AM EST
                         Then get a new PC ... oh -NT - (drook) - Dec. 1, 2011, 12:17:05 PM EST
         What do you have installed? - (folkert) - (3) - Dec. 1, 2011, 01:13:55 PM EST
             Pre-unity ubuntu - (jake123) - (2) - Dec. 1, 2011, 01:18:49 PM EST
                 I've stayed away from "dump" for many years. - (folkert) - (1) - Dec. 1, 2011, 01:50:41 PM EST
                     Cool, thanks for the heads up. -NT - (jake123) - Dec. 1, 2011, 04:20:31 PM EST

Somebody call Cirque du Soleil, because I am about to flip my shit!
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