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[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Best way of moving/replicating /home

Currently I have /home on /dev/sda1 which is a ext3-partition filling the entire disk and I got a new disk which I want to replicate all that data do. What would be the best way of doing it?
Install the new HDD, create a new partition on it and mount it somewhere and then do something like:

cp -a /home/ /mnt/newdisk

Or is there a better way?

Last edited by [vEX] (2007-03-02 18:55:38)

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: Best way of moving/replicating /home

I'd use rsync -av for that. But yes, you're right in general about this.

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[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Best way of moving/replicating /home

Oh, I never thought of that since I never use rsync, just installed it and checked the man page, looks like it does pretty much the same thing. I'll try it out, thanks!

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majikstreet

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Registered: 2006-07-31

Posts: 96

Re: Best way of moving/replicating /home

When I got a new hard drive, I believe I basically did the same thing except with mv.............

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