[Discuss] Moving Your Everyday System to New Hardware

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:23:52 -0400
jbk <jbk at kjkelra.com> wrote:

> I guess I'm lazy in that regard. There is Ansible that RH 
> advocates in doing just this as you describe. On all my 

I'm very much an Ansible advocate but it's too much for this specific
purpose: more time spent crafting and testing Ansible plays than its
worth vis-a-vis how infrequently I actually need it.

> machines I have two root partitions. When it comes time to 
> upgrade to the next distro version I format the other 
> parition and then rsync the current system to the other then 
> modify this in similar fashion as described in my initial 
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This sounds like a job for filesystem snapshots.

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