I am switching my current SSD to a larger one, and I plan to do a bottom to top migration (***://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/migrate_installation_to_new_hardware#Bottom_to_top) of my system. I currently have backups of my /etc and /home directory using borgmatic. The disk with the backups is encrypted and I’ll use the default full disk encryption on the new SSD.
Here is my current plan :
Boot from a Manjaro live USB
Install Manjaro on the new disk
Install Borgmatic and decrypt the HDD with the backups
Mount and chroot the new system from the live usb
Do a borgmatic extract or restore (not sure about that yet) of my /etc and /home directory
Navigate to my pkglist.txt and reinstall my packages
exit the chroot environment and unmount the new ssd.
Here are my questions and concerns :
Are my current steps ok ? Do I need to do anything with fstab and should I do anything with my grub ? I don’t plan to unplug my current SSD yet and I’m worried about running into some issues when I reboot since I’d copy my /etc and have the same fstab / grub as with my old system. Is the bottom to top migration a good strategy here or should I do a clonezilla restoration ?
I have never used borgbackup to restore a system disk, but why are you not using a tool designed to replicate a disk like clonezilla?
A quick search resulted in this: https:// blog.jamesthebard. net/restoring-with-the-borg/ <-- no idea if it will work, Borg backup documentation recommends system image backup for system disks, not file based.
Hello,
Thank you both for your answers !
I’ve tried to restore the system with the method I mentioned (and I’ve read the blog link) but it didn’t work, the repo was not recognized.
I’ve also read your Guide Fabby, which is amazing, but I was afraid of some things. Currently, I can’t make the backup because the my external HDD Is encrypted, and I don’t know the way to back it up through Clonezilla command line…I guess i’ll open another thread for this specific issue.
Thank you
EDIT : Oh and timeshift also didn’t work. I’ve ran into the “Boot device not selected” error.
I’ll try to learn how to resize the encrypted HDD but I’m a bit afraid of losing the data I have there ATM. I’ll maybe try on an USB key. Unfortunately, I can’t buy another HDD atm.
Yes it does, but since I’m using an encrypted HDD the TUI doesn’t recognize the Luks format. From what I’ve read, I need to chose the “Enter_shell” option when given the choice to either “Start Clonezilla” or “Enter_shell”.
For now, if I were to do this, I only know that I should decrypt the HDD with luksOpen, mount it, create a /home/partimg as a mount point and then run clonezilla as root. I don’t know what happens next, and how to restore the backup once it’s done yet.
But you’re right I guess, I should for now re-partition the encrypted disk and try it this way. I’ll browse the arch wiki.