Thanks for the answer! These are some pretty solid arguments. Στις Τρί, 3 Οκτ 2017, 19:56 ο χρήστης Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> έγραψε:
> On 10/03/17 07:28, Dimitris Maroulidis wrote: > > I have a an ubuntu xenial vm on AWS which I want to migrate to Google > > Cloud, and its root filesystem is backed up daily to tarsnap. How would > > I go about doing that? > > Easiest solution is to launch a new VM in GCP and rsync your files across > into a subdirectory; then move things into the appropriate places. Trying > to do a "bare metal" sync runs into two problems: > > 1. You need to have "a place to stand" (aka. a running system) before you > can do anything, so you can't copy onto an "empty disk" unless you play > crazy games with booting into memory disks. > > 2. There are usually subtle differences between how things work in > different > clouds, which will have been taken care of in the base OS images for the > platform; you don't want to overwrite those. > > I suggest rsync rather than tarsnap simply because there's no need to > restore > from a backup if you have the original system still running; rsync will > probably be faster. But you could extract an archive from tarsnap instead > if > you prefer. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid > -- Dimitris Maroulidis <https://www.dimitrismaroulidis.com> President at Wyse Creative <https://www.wysecr.com> PGP Key Fingerprint: 0x9A3AF9E170FC870FA3406D0A507892A78ADEC769
