[sllug-members]: Re: Backup/restore/mirror question

[Adam Barrett]

I can be completely off whack here, but as I understand, no you can't
just drop the old / on the new /

However, you can make backups of all the personal areas (things you
have changed etc) like /home or /usr

and put them back where they belong once the change is done.

However, I am sure you will still run into a few things there are will
trip you up, as you noted hardware changes etc.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Steve Hildebrand
<stevehildebrand757 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I am going to be getting a WD 2.5" portable HD for data storage, and in the
> near future I will be upgrading the old AMD7 Linux box to something that
> isn't carved from stone.  If I make a full backup of root, run a basic
> install of Kubuntu on the new system to get it up and running, would I be
> able to lay the old system down on top of that?  I would expect a video
> tweak, maybe some hardware shuffling.  Of course, the new board will have
> SATA drives, am I right in not expecting that to be a problem?
>
> I would rather not mess with a network level solution, if at all possible,
> but I can do that if that is the best or only low-hassle solution.
>
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