Advice for speech-friendly migrationy

[Gregory Nowak]

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Just to add to this, when possible, what I do is to make a backup of
the entire old system, and keep it around for a few months. That way,
if I discover say 2 months from now that I screwed up, and didn't
migrate something from the old system to the new, I have that backup
to go back to, and get from it whatever I need. I usually keep such a
backup for about half a year. I figure that if I use the new system
extensively, I probably would have gotten whatever I need from the old
system in 6 months of use.

Greg


On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:15:35PM -0400, Pia wrote:
> I would add also to restore /usr/local/ and as far as /etc there are some 
> scripts I hand modify and so of course back up those.  Also /root as well 
> as /home  You also may want to use your package manager to dump a list of 
> installed packages so you can get the new system up and running the same  
> way the old system was with all the desired software.
>
> I think the best thing to do is to make a back up of the old drive on DVD 
> or whatever you have that can hold it and then install a clean install.  
> After the install, then restore whatever you want from the backups.  I  
> don't know how big your Linux partition is and so not sure how feasible  
> that is for you.
>


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