Comments on: Move your Ubuntu system to another computer in 3 simple steps

By: Gaurav Mali

Gaurav Mali — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:08:15 +0000

nvm, I can back their respective .folders.

By: Gaurav Mali

Gaurav Mali — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:47:18 +0000

Will this transfer Ruby Bundles (Bundler) and RVMs as well? Or should I back those up separately?

By: kele

kele — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:44:45 +0000

Hi Philippe!

Thanks A LOT for this!! I followed the steps you kindly shared with us but for the 3rd step I did (to the target machine):
sudo apt-get install dselect
dpkg –set-selections < ~/pkglist
dselect update
apt-get dselect-upgrade show

I am using Kubuntu (when I do lsb_release -d I get: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS though).

By: R Sarath

R Sarath — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:26:31 +0000

Could someone please explain the above steps in detail( a walk through) as I am a newbie to ubuntu . I run ubuntu 11.10 on my desktop and i wish to port it to my laptop with all the updates and software downloads.

By: Innovative Web Provi

Innovative Web Provi — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:17:24 +0000

Have anyone tried this on version 11.10? I’m planning to migrate my ubuntu to my other PC right after I fix it. Thanks for this anyway, nice stuff you got there

By: Philippe Creux

Philippe Creux — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:03:49 +0000

I would rather leave /etc alone unless you edited files yourself. I guess you should use “sudo cp -r” :)

By: Aymen

Aymen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:58:52 +0000

Hi,
It seems very helpful article, but in Step 2 how I can transfer directories like /etc and /opt to the new machine? cause cp -r doesn’t work fine for me. Moreover, are the /etc and /opt directories enough for this kind of migration? Or should I transfer all under /?
Thanks

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:47:27 +0000

never mind, I wasn’t running bash…

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:41:35 +0000

Step 1 doesn’t work for me, I got “illegal variable name” error.

I have 10.04

By: Shay Guy

Shay Guy — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:59:26 +0000

I can’t seem to follow the various tutorials for rsync that are out there. Do I need to run in daemon mode or whatever? That seems more complex than it should be. I can’t even figure out how to resolve the hostname. (Both systems are on the same wireless home network — “network” meaning they can use the same router to access the Internet. But just using “destname” — as in “myname@destname:~$” — doesn’t work, I can’t find a USB-to-USB cable, and I don’t know if an Ethernet cable will do any good.)