It basically rained all day and it's raining now. However, that's supposed to clear this morning and we then head into a stretch of sunny and warm weather. The black flies are almost finished and the mosquitoes aren't in evidence when it sunny and hot but in cool and damp ... well it's like sunset all day long.
I kept a fire going yesterday and eventually got around to bringing down a load of wood from up by the barn. I should be burning the smaller stuff, so I did.
I cloned that boot drive, coming to the conclusion that all was well. It's a multi step process:
1) do a full dump of the current bootable system, without the user public areas
2) unplug all other drives and boot from DVD
3) format and install Linux on the drive. I've been consisted with this approach, setting aside a small, 8gb swap area as the first partition and then the second partition formatted as ext4
4) ensure that the drive boots, still with nothing else attached
5) re-attach the other three drives and boot from the now-main drive
6) restore that full dump to the drive being cloned
7) boot from the cloned drive, ensure that VMware runs etc.
8) copy the Windows 10 guest machine to the cloned drive, ensure that it runs.
9) copy the public areas to the drive (that takes about 3 hours to copy 300+ gb
... and that's basically it. There were a couple more shutdowns and reboots in there but this does the trick. Installing the new Long Term Support Linux version to a newly formatted drive with nothing attached ensures that GRUB, the boot loader, is properly installed and the drive is bootable by itself.
In addition to all that restoring, I update the GRUB config and FSTAB files after the restore. That's because they're pointing to the UUID of the original disk. I also found in this process that there were a few files that I had to install from the repositories that didn't carry over to the new LTS version, e.g. the dump command, which I run weekly for my backup strategy and the system monitor (like task manager on Windows). In this process I also updated to the newest release of VMware and PlexServer. By doing the full restore, I didn't have to do those installs a second time.
At the end of all this, unmount the cloned drive and turn it off.
Cassie spent a lot of the day chasing squirrels in the rain. I only got outside and threw the ball for her once, that was when I was bringing in that wood.
We're only finding the occasional mosquito inside now, thank goodness. I've been up for 2.5 hours and saw and zapped one.
Today ... tackle my bike and see if I can find that darn click, click, click ...
Tomorrow Sandy heads to Toronto for ballet in the evening, sees Joyce overnight, meets up with Kylie on Thursday for the trip to Montreal (Kylie had already planned to go so this works out well) and she (Sandy) will end up in Hemmingford Thursday night, returning here on Sunday. I head to Barrie/Stef's on Friday with Cassie; Lauren is doing dog sitting on Saturday while I do my 400k; we (Cassie and I) will be back here on Sunday morning. The weather is looking great !
Onward !
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