Re: Switch to a new PC

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 04.02.2022 um 11:26 schrieb Russell VT:
> This is "a religious" question, as there are many different "sworn" ways to
> do it.
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> The "old reliable" method, if you have both filesystems available... at
> least off the top of my head...
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> cd / ; tar -cvf - / | (cd /path/to/other/disk ; tar -xvfp -)
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> There are also many other solutions using things like cpio and dd... and
> technically, you can probably even do a "cp -pr /source /dest" or similar.
> There are also better "purist" methods using setup to save the current list
> of packages, and then pipe that to a new setup to install those same
> packages, all from the command line (it's probably "the best," but you'll
> have to reconfigure everything, too)
>
> Hope that gives you a few different starting points to play with...
I wouldn't expect most tools to work on special files in /dev. Even tar 
fails on /proc, it would begin to pack your local registry...
Make a basic installation on the new system, then sync the rest.
An even cleaner way might be to clone your installation via setup, using 
/etc/setup/installed.db - maybe someone has a script for that -
and then just sync the /home hierarchy.
Thomas

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> R VT
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> On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 2:10 AM Vanda Vodkamilkevich <
> vanda.vodkamilkevich@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
>>
>> Probably a known issue (I remember on this list some trick using the
>> installed.db file) but I want to backup my whole cygwin tree (on a network
>> drive) before switching PC and without losing anything... What is the best
>> method / tool?
>> (currently trying with FreeFileSync but it is excluding files in a strange
>> way...)
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