[mdlug] New computer

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Thu Aug 7 21:25:36 EDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 19:07 -0400, Garry Stahl wrote: 
> I have a heartbeat.  I'm burning the openSuse 13.1 disk right now.
> I need to move the /home directory from Phoenix to the yet to be named 
> machine.  This never works as well as I would like.
> This time the new box shares no components with Phoenix.  Both are fully 
> functional.
> Suggestions, offers of help, marriage, other?

Attach removable storage, backup /home.  Install on new machine.  Attach
removable media, restore /home.

Or install on the new machine and rsync across a network from the old
machine to the new machine - WHEN NOT LOGGED IN AS THE USER.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA



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