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rgc
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: Debian VMWare to Linode migration |
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I have a working Linode running. However, I'm planning to update it. To avoid running two Linode's during testing I did the deployment of the new system on my own workstation in VMWare server.
Testing is done, and the vmware image/system works like it should.
Now I want to migrate it onto my Linode. I plan to do this using rsync. I've mounted the new disk images inside the old system under /new/, /new/usr and /new/var. Now what should I sync/not-sync?
the /new/ partition is a Linode Debian 4.0 deployment. So it should have the /dev partition fully populated. Rsync'ing /proc, /tmp or /sys is probably also useless. Are there any other directories I have to exclude? |
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SteveG
Joined: 30 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| You might want to be careful with the networking setup in /etc/network/interfaces. Also, /boot is unneeded on the linode, but I doubt it will do any harm. |
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rgc
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:05 pm Post subject: Do I need the /lib directory? |
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| Do I need the /lib directory? It is filled with modules for the kernel on the VMWare system. The kernel for the UML system is not in my filesystem I think. So what part of the /lib directory is redundant? |
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sweh
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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/lib/modules isn't needed. /lib/tls (and /usr/lib/tls) can probably go, but verify the thing still works properly, just in case.
Most everything else in /lib should be left alone. |
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OverlordQ
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| some flavor of rsync probably would of been best. |
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