Timeline for How to fully copy linux instance to another machine
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| Oct 8, 2022 at 20:06 | comment | added | gapsf | scp, rsync, tar and upload somewhere then download it and untar. Or you waiting somebody told you what you need to copy? Dumb question. | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 14:27 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | that question lay there unanswered for a full year with a negative score, it got "roomba'd", i.e. just automatically cleaned up due to lack of interest... I'm having a very hard time calling this censorship... | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 14:09 | comment | added | mYnDstrEAm |
Marcus referring to this & a prior deleted question but you probably can't read it anymore (I still can). All I'm asking is a way to do this (conveniently, reliably, quickly and) comprehensively, for example @user9102437 you may also want to restore/copy your .bashrc file...and there may be more things like it, a tool to multiselect such things (all integrated instead of having to know all the relevant Linux files) would be very useful.
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| Oct 8, 2022 at 14:09 | history | edited | user9102437 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 8, 2022 at 13:54 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | @user9102437 that is pretty important information that your question is missing! Would you please edit your question to include that python aspect? | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 13:49 | comment | added | user9102437 | @mYnDstrEAm I don't really care about configurations, so if it is impossible it is not a big deal. I only need the installed programs, libraries, and my files | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 13:47 | comment | added | user9102437 | @MarcusMüller The question by your link as far as I understood only discusses apt packages, but for me one of the important things is Python which I have installed manually, and also the packages I gave installed after that using pip. I am afraid that I don't know where are all those files located to copy the folders | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 13:32 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | @mYnDstrEAm could you please explain what your mean with censoring?! Are you sure it's not just you know bad answers getting downvoted and underdefined questions being closed as in need of clarification? Or questions getting marked as duplicates of existing questions, which is pretty much the opposite of censorship, but archives the question and points to good existing answers? If there is a pattern of actual censorship here, I, as somewhat regular contributor would like to know about it, but specifically, not as generally-unaimed accusation! | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 13:04 | comment | added | mYnDstrEAm | Are you only looking to restore the installed packages or also to restore all system configurations, all configs in /etc, and so on? People here often censor posts about copying/backing up whole systems (not the same as making a clone or just copying some files) for unknown reasons so this may get deleted too. Maybe you could use the tool TimeShift. | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 12:03 | history | edited | Kusalananda♦ |
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| Oct 8, 2022 at 11:16 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 8, 2022 at 10:59 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | (for the stored data, you will want to copy that over manually using rsync, as it's rather specific. Might mostly be your home directory, might be things like documents served from /var/www ; short of actually copying the whole machine, there's no way for debian to know what this entails and what not) | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 10:58 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | Does this answer your question? How do I replicate installed package selections from one Debian system to another? (Debian Wheezy) | |
| Oct 8, 2022 at 10:57 | comment | added | Marcus Müller | that does sound like making a copy of it ;) | |
| S Oct 8, 2022 at 10:54 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Oct 8, 2022 at 10:54 | history | asked | user9102437 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |