On May 12, 2005 11:38 pm, Greg Franks wrote: > Alex at Avantel wrote: > >Here's my idea so far (after installing FC3 on the other box); > > > >1) let rpm tell me which files I've changed on the production system > > - (rpm -V --all) > > - edit this list to remove files obviously not neede > > Ouch -- sounds painful.. It's all just bash scripts . . . look for the ones where there's a change, discard the rest. Using scripts to catch the changes, the list of files (& directories) got whitled down to about 200 and then I manually deleted a few. tar that up and bring it over to a vanilla FC3 install - or at least that's the plan . . . first attempt wrecked my raid configuration (now that's an ouch!) > > mondo archive/restore will dump and restore from any filesystem to any > other file system. It will even create bootable cdroms/DVD's and allow > you to partition away. Beware -- the process can be slow if you use a > lot of conpression! Too much patching and fixing to get it all running right - prefer to do it up front. Maybe that's the flaw in the plan . . . ? > > If you have 80G of data, this will take a fair amount of time. Yes, I noticed that ! Alex ==== > > -- > __@ Greg Franks <| _~@ __O > _`\<,_ Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |O\ -^\<;^\<, > (*)/ (*) (*)--(*)%---/(*) > "Where do you want to go today?" Outside. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Avantel Systems, and is believed to be clean.