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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users [Debian, Ethernet, crazy ideas] Data transfer, the hard way... Post 302412887 by Elric of Grans on Tuesday 13th of April 2010 11:01:10 PM
Old 04-14-2010
[Debian, Ethernet, crazy ideas] Data transfer, the hard way...

A little while ago, my PC died. Something critical --- RAM, Mother Board, CPU, not sure. It was old and needed a replacement anyway (I knew it was on its last legs a year ago, but kept putting it off), so I simply ordered a new system. I would like to recover all my old files, however, and opening the new box would obviously void the warranty. What I need to do it get them off the hard drives in the old box and onto my new one.

It so happens I have a third system laying around. It is the same architecture as the dead one (i386), but is far older. Old enough that the optimal form of data transfer was 3.5'' floppy. Not the best way to recover a few hundred Gigs of data. It does have Ethernet, however, which gave me an idea.

I was thinking of taking the hard drives out of the dead PC and putting them into the old-old one. The OS on the primary disk is Debian, so while I suspect it will not boot as-is, I would imagine I could use the Debian install disc as a live disc to do some form of kernel adjustments or something. I was then thinking of configuring NFS shares where I have files I want to keep. I will then run a cable from the old-old PC's Ethernet to the new one's and somehow connect them up (Debian to Debian, Lenny in both cases). With a mini-network and file sharing, I can just copy across and be done.

This was just a crazy idea I came up with. How realistically achievable would it be? What kinds of difficulties should I expect in moving the hard drives from the dead PC to the old-old PC? I suspect I will need to run fsck (I was logged in when it finally died), but is there any other preparatory groundwork I should undertake? How do I connect two Debian systems via a direct Ethernet link? Would I require any special hardware for this?
 

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X_LIST(1gmt)						       Generic Mapping Tools						      X_LIST(1gmt)

NAME
x_list - Extract Cross-Over Information from the Data Base. SYNOPSIS
x_list [ leg1 ] [ leg2 ] [ -dataflags ] [ -Rwest/east/south/north ] [ -Xxbase ] [ -H ] [ -I ] [ -V ] [ -Ccorrfile ] [ -Zignorefile ] DESCRIPTION
x_list will allow the user to extract information from the xx_base.b and xx_legs.b files. Several options can be passed on the command line in order to specify which parameters to extract. They are: leg1 leg2 If two legs are specified, the cross-overs they have in common are returned. If one leg is specified, all the external cross-overs involving this leg are returned, OR only its internal cross-overs if -I is selected. If no legs are given, all the external (or internal with -I) cross-overs are returned. This program is useful if one wants to look at, say, gravity COEs versus time from port for a particular leg, etc. dataflags This is a string of any combination of the following: l means list both legnames. t means list time. x means list longitude. y means list latitude. g means list gravity COEs. m means list magnetics COEs. b means list bathymetry COEs. G means list average gravity at cross-over. M means list average magnetic anomaly at cross-over. B means list average bathymetry at cross-over. h means list heading of ship at cross-over. The components are written out in the order they appear in dataflags. The default output is -txygmbGMBhl. When internal COEs are desired, the time reported is the elapsed time since the ship first occupied the cross-over point. For external COEs the time means time from the start of the year in seconds. -R Only return cross-overs inside the specified region west, east, south, and north. [Default is world]. -X Indicate alternate xx_base.b file. -H Issue one header record on output. -I Report on internal COEs [Default is external COEs]. -C Apply cross-over correction to the data (i.e. reports the cross-over value after the best-fitting corrections have been applied to both legs). If no corrfile is given, the default correction file is assumed. -Z Ignore those legs that appear in the ignorefile. -V Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports to stderr [Default runs "silently"]. SEE ALSO
GMT(1), x_system(1) REFERENCES
Wessel, P. XOVER: A Cross-over Error Detector for Track Data, Computers & Geosciences, 15, 333-346. GMT 4.5.7 15 Jul 2011 X_LIST(1gmt)
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