Migrating Trisquel to Another Hard Drive
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Hi everyone,
This isn't specific to Trisquel, though I am running that OS on my computer. My laptop, which at the time was running Linux Mint, gave out on me. The hard drive has chronic read errors and can't find a boot device. I installed Trisquel GNU/Linux on an external terabyte drive as a stop-gap until I order a new hard drive for my laptop. I changed the BIOS settings to look for a USB device to boot from first, then look for an internal hard drive second, so as long as I have the external plugged in the computer will boot just as if it were an internal hard disk.
Soon I'll be buying a new hard disk and installing it in my laptop. I'd like to migrate my system- data, programs, everything- from the external hard drive to the internal hard drive, then use the external hard drive only for backups. Is there a (relatively) simple way to migrate the system to a new drive? Thanks for your help.
Hi everyone,
This isn't specific to Trisquel, though I am running that OS on my computer.
My laptop, which at the time was running Linux Mint, gave out on me. The hard
drive has chronic read errors and can't find a boot device. I installed
Trisquel GNU/Linux on an external terabyte drive as a stop-gap until I order
a new hard drive for my laptop. I changed the BIOS settings to look for a USB
device to boot from first, then look for an internal hard drive second, so as
long as I have the external plugged in the computer will boot just as if it
were an internal hard disk.
Soon I'll be buying a new hard disk and installing it in my laptop. I'd like
to migrate my system- data, programs, everything- from the external hard
drive to the internal hard drive, then use the external hard drive only for
backups. Is there a (relatively) simple way to migrate the system to a new
drive? Thanks for your help.
All the more reason for having good backups right?
Anyway, copying your home directory is one good start. Although various configuration files (starting with . in there) may or may not be compatible amongst different distros because of different software versions.
There may or may not be other things to do as well, depending on what other programs and stuff you have installed... Your question is pretty broad... :)
And in general I would not recommend backing up programs if they are available in the distros repository. They can be easily reinstalled and it avoids the issue of different and incompatible software versions crossing over into a different distro and then making everything go sideways.
Definitely important to have good backups. I had a netbook running Ubuntu 13.10 that I don't use anymore. I had a backup of my home folder, and a complete backup made by deja-dup on the terabyte drive. Since my laptop gave up the ghost, I moved my backups to the netbook and repurposed the terabyte.
I just wanted to make sure that creating a backup of config files and things, then copying them to a fresh system wouldn't cause any problems.
"I just wanted to make sure that creating a backup of config files and things, then copying them to a fresh system wouldn't cause any problems."
I don't know if I can say that. You could always proceed at your own risk.
"I just wanted to make sure that creating a backup of config files and
things, then copying them to a fresh system wouldn't cause any problems."
I don't know if I can say that. You could always proceed at your own risk.
And in general I would not recommend backing up programs if they are
available in the distros repository. They can be easily reinstalled and it
avoids the issue of different and incompatible software versions crossing
over into a different distro and then making everything go sideways.
Definitely important to have good backups. I had a netbook running Ubuntu
13.10 that I don't use anymore. I had a backup of my home folder, and a
complete backup made by deja-dup on the terabyte drive. Since my laptop gave
up the ghost, I moved my backups to the netbook and repurposed the terabyte.
I just wanted to make sure that creating a backup of config files and things,
then copying them to a fresh system wouldn't cause any problems.
All the more reason for having good backups right?
Anyway, copying your home directory is one good start. Although various
configuration files (starting with . in there) may or may not be compatible
amongst different distros because of different software versions.
There may or may not be other things to do as well, depending on what other
programs and stuff you have installed... Your question is pretty broad... :)
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