Arch Linux

maximiliano

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Registered: 2013-04-16

Posts: 29

Mirrored installation ( Looking for advice )

Hi Folks, since a few days ago I mirrored my complete ArchLinux from an 500GB SDD to a 1TB NVME. Basically I did what is on this documentation

Full system backup and it is working perfectly!. But now I want to use the SSD as my backup OS so for that I want to know what you guys think.

Partition layout:

/dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 swap  
/dev/nvme0n1p3 ext4  /
/dev/nvme0n1p4 ext4  /home

My idea:
Create a cronjob and the following steps maybe once a month.

1 ) To mount the

/ 

on

/mnt/root

and do the rsync
2 ) To mount the

/home

on

/mnt/home

and do the rsync

And in my opinion this is going to work, but my doubt is What is going to happen if I use something like this with the EFI system ? I think the link I mentioned earlier might just work for a one shot system migration but not for having the EFI system fully updated, I know could be a good idea to start that 2nd ArchLinux and update it from Itself, but maybe I can do something like this.

Thanks in advance.