On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Till Hofmann
<hofmanntill AT googlemail DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> You can change the UUIDs of your new drive so they match the ones of the old
> drive.
> tune2fs -U <NEWUUID> /dev/<HD-PARTITION>
> see man tune2fs .
>
> Just make sure you don't mix up the two drives since they will have
> identical UUIDs (which defeats the purpose of unique IDs).

Or, boot with a live CD and edit the places where they are used -
probably just /etc/fstab unless grub uses them too.

If you are looking for a painless way to back up and restore a whole
linux sustem, look at clonezilla-live which will do partition-image
copies  or ReaR which will will do a traditional tar backup but will
also build a boot ISO with a script to reconstruct your filesystem
layout and restore it.  With a little fiddling you can adjust the
destination sizes.   I'm not sure how either will mesh with encrypted
disks, though.   I think ReaR could be tuned to do the parts of a bare
metal restore that backuppc needs fairly easily since it is just a
bunch of shell scripts.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Live Security Virtual Conference
Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and 
threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions 
will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware 
threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/