11 Aug
2012
11 Aug
'12
4:57 a.m.
Hi,
I had some trouble with my Notebook and desktop computers last week when
Entangle stuffed the display files on both computers. I successfully
rebuilt the Notebook because I had a separate /home partition.
Unfortunately the desktop PC (Suse 12.1 64 bit) was a single partition,
and it will not be quite so easy. How do I get the files I want from
the desktop onto a dive attached to my notebook? Ctrl+Alt+F2 gives me a
console in the desktop. The Notebook is running Gnome. Once I have my
data tucked away, I get adventurous.
Many thanks
Andrew Greig
11 Aug
11 Aug
3:09 p.m.
I would use rsync over ssh and copy / home
Something like this should work
Rsync -avpe ssh /home user@ipnotebook:/home/user/backup
Or just rsync to a USB disk
Rsync -avp /home /media/backup disk
Andy
On Aug 11, 2012 3:59 PM, "Andrew Greig" <pushin.linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I had some trouble with my Notebook and desktop computers last week when
Entangle stuffed the display files on both computers. I successfully
rebuilt the Notebook because I had a separate /home partition.
Unfortunately the desktop PC (Suse 12.1 64 bit) was a single partition,
and it will not be quite so easy. How do I get the files I want from
the desktop onto a dive attached to my notebook? Ctrl+Alt+F2 gives me a
console in the desktop. The Notebook is running Gnome. Once I have my
data tucked away, I get adventurous.
Many thanks
Andrew Greig
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4:06 p.m.
Thanks Andy,
I am getting close but as yet, no cigar.
The data I want on the Hitachi external drive is on my desktop pc which
has console access
The notebook can mount the Hitachi drive, so that is where it is located
From the notebook I ran this:
rsync -avp /home /media/Hitachi/DesktopSuseBackup
and the home dir of my Notebook is now backed up to the Hitachi
So the next plan was:
if I could figure out how to mount the Hitachi on the desktop, I would
run the identical command from that console, and get the desired result.
In my Notebook the external Hitachi drive is shown as /media/Hitachi
and running df from the console in the notebook shows it is mounted
as /dev/sdc1, so I plugged the Hitachi into the Desktop machine and ran
dmesg which showed it as sdb1, then mkdir /mnt/Hitachi and mounted the
drive, I used mc to make a new directory in the Hitachi ---
Bak_Suse_Desktop
ran the command above as rsync -avp /home /mnt/Hitachi/Bak_Suse_Desktop
and went shopping. On my return with the groceries, everything I needed
(and more) was in the external drive. Now I can reload the system onto
my desktop
Perhaps it might be better if I isolate my data from my system and just
keep snapshots of my system, that are not clogged with data. There are
definitely some easier ways to avoid the dramas of this last week, and
quicker ways to recover, I have much to learn. And I am very grateful
for the assistance I receive on this list.
On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 16:09 +0100, Andy Dean wrote:
I would use rsync over ssh and copy / home
Something like this should work
Rsync -avpe ssh /home user@ipnotebook:/home/user/backup
Or just rsync to a USB disk
Rsync -avp /home /media/backup disk
Andy
On Aug 11, 2012 3:59 PM, "Andrew Greig" <pushin.linux(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
I had some trouble with my Notebook and desktop computers last
week when
Entangle stuffed the display files on both computers. I
successfully
rebuilt the Notebook because I had a separate /home partition.
Unfortunately the desktop PC (Suse 12.1 64 bit) was a single
partition,
and it will not be quite so easy. How do I get the files I
want from
the desktop onto a dive attached to my notebook? Ctrl+Alt+F2
gives me a
console in the desktop. The Notebook is running Gnome. Once
I have my
data tucked away, I get adventurous.
Many thanks
Andrew Greig
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13 Aug
13 Aug
8:34 a.m.
On 11/08/12 14:57, Andrew Greig wrote:
Hi,
I had some trouble with my Notebook and desktop computers last week when
Entangle stuffed the display files on both computers. I successfully
rebuilt the Notebook because I had a separate /home partition.
Unfortunately the desktop PC (Suse 12.1 64 bit) was a single partition,
and it will not be quite so easy. How do I get the files I want from
the desktop onto a dive attached to my notebook? Ctrl+Alt+F2 gives me a
console in the desktop. The Notebook is running Gnome. Once I have my
data tucked away, I get adventurous.
Many thanks
Andrew Greig
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luv-main(a)luv.asn.au
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Why not boot using a live CD/DVD (or USB image thereof)?
I would normally use Knoppix at level 3 for this task as it gets the
boot over quickly, and I use the tools from the CLI anyway.
9:18 a.m.
Allan Duncan wrote:
Why not boot using a live CD/DVD (or USB image
thereof)? I would
normally use Knoppix at level 3 for this task as it gets the boot
over quickly, and I use the tools from the CLI anyway.
If that is for hysterical raisins, allow me to recommend Debian's
official live images. -- in this case, the "rescue" flavour. [0]
At present only Debian 6 versions are available pre-built; sometimes
there are testing/unstable weekly builds. The infrastructure to build
your own custom images is included in Debian, and is reasonably
turnkey as at testing. [1]
If you are REALLY in a hurry, replace "live-config" with "single" in
the boot options, which speeds it up drastically when booting old
hardware. Many other options are documented in the live-boot and
live-config manpages (see their respective packages).
[0] http://www.debian.org/CD/live/
[1] live-build, live-boot and live-config
The latter two are vastly improved forks of Ubuntu's casper.
The former I annoyed me enough that I threw it away:
http://www.cyber.com.au/~twb/.bin/twb-bootstrap
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