From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QjqMR-0003Di-TL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:20:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54DCB21C0D4; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com (out5.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EE621C17B for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D22320A02 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=subject:from:to:date:in-reply-to :references:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id :mime-version; s=smtpout; bh=v+9SDCnn8MuPRbjnT0TGm7vQmbc=; b=WBj IRg8gjIU+gCo0SHvflmv+K/j+QmsELdX//9Vs5AZrdiybkw60vpKsiSdQ60sLNTM uHxiWexTx4IpqlU1DLwIDI39aQtmE4qNuxElu9paxMJsTDIYPCginsEXWoc+kMCs Z5reUeQtipvh2CEm8PjBkbPZbrTEQjTxcf1w84rE= X-Sasl-enc: Pl4tY36Tvrv7a0NTjK7MM9sWGkQn8XzpOSHMMZStQ8cV 1311243536 Received: from [192.168.31.28] (cpe-174-109-037-078.nc.res.rr.com [174.109.37.78]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EE9ED452690 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query From: Albert Hopkins To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:18:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <425067986-1311242498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-798183566-@b11.c20.bise7.blackberry> References: <425067986-1311242498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-798183566-@b11.c20.bise7.blackberry> Face: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2 Message-ID: <1311243536.19744.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 86a916b66fb55e9f40e31da88ab5cde0 On Thursday, July 21 at 10:01 (+0000), jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk said: > A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from > athlon dual core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and > motherboard. I was going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged > all packages with march native >=20 > Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best > technology? When I move to a different machine, I just * boot into a live cd * back up all the partitions with rsync (or use tar or similar if you need compression) to an external (USB) drive. * boot new machine into livcd * repartion, copy backed up files * install bootloader (and reconfigure/build kernel if necessary) If both source and target are on the same network you can probably also get away with rsync'ing over the LAN instead of using an external drive. As for what "technology" is best, they are not going to make a whole lot of difference, IMO. I find rsync/cp easier to work with (you can manipulate files before copying them to the new box). tar is more efficient if you need compression. dd, would be the least efficient in my opinion, because it's going to clone the entire partition, including unused blocks, when you're really only concerned about the files. Tools like partimage, etc. can clone a partition "smartly" but I tend to use those tools less often as I'm really only concerned about the files, not the partitions. Unless your source and target partitions are going to have the exact same geometry, I don't see the benefit if cloning partitions. Just my 2=C2=A2 -a