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Registered: 2014-09-02

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TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

I recently had to reinstall #! on my desktop. In the process I chose to do a fresh install on my laptop as well. During the OS install, I opted to have /home on their own partitions.

I like the idea of making them BOTH identical to one another.

I was thinking of just documenting everything I do to my laptop on a shared GoogleDoc. I like that it is editable in realtime on both machines. Then duplicate my steps on the desktop.

So far I've gone through the initial setup on both.

How would YOU do this to make it easier?

They both have LAMP set up, so later I'll be copying over the 'etc/hosts' file, as well as the 'vhosts.conf'. I'll have to figure out a reliable way to sync the databases of my projects. Right now I use adminer and dump/import.

damo

#! gimpbanger

From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

Easiest method? Set it all up how you like on one machine, make an iso with Remastersys, install the identical setup on another machine.

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Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

Easiest method? Set it all up how you like on one machine, make an iso with Remastersys, install the identical setup on another machine.

Thanks. Never heard of Remastersys.

How would you do this it were an ongoing thing? Future tweaks, edits, changes?!

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From: Ohio, U. S. of A.

Registered: 2013-09-19

Posts: 1,244

Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

Just wondering: would remastersys also be good for creating a backup disk?

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#! gimpbanger

From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

Easiest method? Set it all up how you like on one machine, make an iso with Remastersys, install the identical setup on another machine.

Thanks. Never heard of Remastersys.

How would you do this it were an ongoing thing? Future tweaks, edits, changes?!

You mean you haven't seen my epic guide? HowTo: Make your own iso, with Remastersys

If you are just using it as a personal backup/setup utility, then don't worry about the complicated-looking options and menus. Go with the defaults and do

sudo remastersys dist

A bootable iso is made, which you can dd to a usb stick. This runs as the usual live session on the other machine, and you can install with

remsu remastersys-installer-noswap gui
#or with swap
remsu remastersys-installer gui

For regular synchronisation you would have to keep a track of your changes and copy them across.

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

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Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

Just wondering: would remastersys also be good for creating a backup disk?

It has the option to do a system backup, but I haven't explored it myself. Personally I use fsarchiver to backup a partition

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#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 484

Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

I use a text file with additional installed packages and i use a "shadow"-directory-tree with configurations (e.g. /backup/etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js, /backup/home/user/.config/openbox/menu.xml, ...).

I install minimal (you can install #!) and then i install the additional packages

apt-get install $(cat /backup/packages.txt | xargs)

After that i copy only needed configurations. If i change configurations i change my shadow-directory-tree. I only need to backup data and not to backup configurations. User oder client individual files (e.g. ssh-keys) are treated like normal data. If i reinstall i do not restore dot-files and dot-directorys. If i really need them (e.g. tmux/screen) i put them to my shadow-directory (etc or home).

Last edited by uname (2014-12-16 15:47:57)

Alad

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

Install #! on an amazon cloud server and SSH to it  O:)

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Last edited by Alad (2014-12-16 16:31:22)

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OrganizedFellow

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Registered: 2014-09-02

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Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

This is pretty close to what I'm wanting to do: http://dotfiles.github.io/

Why would I want my dotfiles on GitHub?

    Backup, restore, and sync the prefs and settings for your toolbox. Your dotfiles might be the most important files on your machine.

Kuno

#! Die Hard

From: Osnabrück - DE

Registered: 2009-01-09

Posts: 674

Re: TO THOSE USERS WITH #! ON MORE THAN ONE PC: Are they set up identical?

I usually make an image on my installation, using partimage running from a live-usb (PartedMagic here), which i then restore to the second pc (again from PartedMagic live-usb). Only thing to do then is eventually editing fstab/hostname and grub-configuration. Which can be done from PartedMagic. In case the cloned install won't boot:  PartedMagic has an Extras-Menu which launches grub2-rescue-disk. This finds and boots all bootable systems on your harddisk. Having booted the clone, its easy to reinstall grub from the running system. PartedMagic meanwhile is "donation-ware", though the last costfree version (pmagic_2013_08_01.iso) should still be available somewhere on the net.