[ale] New scsi drive - restoring data from old drives

[Jonathan Glass]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 13:44, Jim Seymour wrote:
> Here's the plan. Just bought a new u160 adapter and drive. I will need 
> to transfer some files,etc from my 2 old uw scsi drives to the new one. 
> I have a travan tape drive I can use to transfer needed files. Is there a 
> better, safer way to transfer the files from the old drives to the new? 
> Some of the data I am concerned about getting corrupted during the 
> transfer if I use tape. I do not plan to keep the older drives and scsi 
> adapter in this box. My main concern about direct transfer from old 
> drives to the new drive is the drive arrangement (dev/sda1, dev/sda2, 
> etc.) changing and causing problems once the old drives are removed. I 
> do not have a cd burner so that is not an option at this time. Any 
> advise would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
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As long as you're using labels for the filesystems in /etc/fstab, you
can mix and match your SCSI drives all day long, and the system will
still run.  man e2label, man fstab.

Thanks
-- 
Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Office: 404-385-0127
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