Debian VMWare to Linode migration

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Debian VMWare to Linode migration

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forum:rgc 16 years, 10 months ago

I have a working Linode running. However, I'm planning to update it. To avoid running two Linode's during testing I did the deployment of the new system on my own workstation in VMWare server.

Testing is done, and the vmware image/system works like it should.

Now I want to migrate it onto my Linode. I plan to do this using rsync. I've mounted the new disk images inside the old system under /new/, /new/usr and /new/var. Now what should I sync/not-sync?

the /new/ partition is a Linode Debian 4.0 deployment. So it should have the /dev partition fully populated. Rsync'ing /proc, /tmp or /sys is probably also useless. Are there any other directories I have to exclude?

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forum:SteveG · Answer 1 · Jan. 2, 2008, 1:05 p.m.

forum:SteveG 16 years, 10 months ago

You might want to be careful with the networking setup in /etc/network/interfaces. Also, /boot is unneeded on the linode, but I doubt it will do any harm.

forum:rgc · Answer 2 · Jan. 2, 2008, 7:05 p.m.

forum:rgc 16 years, 10 months ago

Do I need the /lib directory? It is filled with modules for the kernel on the VMWare system. The kernel for the UML system is not in my filesystem I think. So what part of the /lib directory is redundant?

forum:sweh · Answer 3 · Jan. 2, 2008, 7:48 p.m.

forum:sweh 16 years, 10 months ago

/lib/modules isn't needed. /lib/tls (and /usr/lib/tls) can probably go, but verify the thing still works properly, just in case.

Most everything else in /lib should be left alone.

forum:OverlordQ · Answer 4 · Jan. 6, 2008, 12:12 p.m.

forum:OverlordQ 16 years, 10 months ago

some flavor of rsync probably would of been best.

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