Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (279 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, 2009-03-09 at 04:03 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:

> Problem, I have a xfs 1TB hard drive with badblocks (/dev/sda1) and
> would like to clone it to another 1TB drive (/dev/sdc1), /dev/sdc is
> already partitioned and mkfs.xfs run.

With xfs you could use xfsdump and xfsrestore.

> I've tried rsync, that didn't do it properly.

Why not?

> Next I copied all the data
> across, but it gets confused on boot with the different namings in
> /dev/disk/by-id/ and what was copied across in /etc/fstab and the stuff
> in /etc/grub/.

Well, those you will have to adjust manually, there is no way around it 
that I know of.

> YaST in 11.2 Alpha0 doesn't now have an entry for cloning a system that
> I can identify.
> What's recommended?

rsync.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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