On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 17:22, Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote: >> I need to dd or cp my laptop's harddrive over the LAN. > > Don't use dd if its a mounted file system. >
Thanks! > scp will work, but you have to be careful about thing like symlinks > which scp WILL FOLLOW, and which can increase disk space use. > >> scp -r / root@178.63.65.136:/ > > Two reasons this won't work. > > 1) most of the time, "root" login through ssh is blocked. > > 2) copying to "/" will overwrite the existing, running, system. > > Much better, if you have the disk space on the receiving machine, is > to make a directory under your normal user, > like "/home/dotan/Laptop", and do something like this, AS ROOT: > > # scp -r / dotan@178.63.65.136:Laptop > > and then the entire laptop file system will be available to recover at > will. > Of course, it was only a syntax example. > But in general, it's necessary to back up only /etc and /home. These > are where settings and user data are stored, and rebuilding the whole > system it can be better to build the "system" anew, then just recover > the user data and any needed custom settings from /etc. > >> What is the canonical way of doing this? > > Canonical runs Ubuntu, you need to ask that question in the Ubuntu > forums. This is the Debian user list, and while Ubuntu gets their > software packages mostly from Debian, they have their own issues with > versions and custom packages. > Nice! I'll use that line next time someone asks me for a canonical matrix! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=1dNnxNV+FnTTpi2r1Dca8F5RUeFxL=105e...@mail.gmail.com
