Copy @home, installed packges (flatpak pacman aur) from old install

I did a fresh install of garuda linux on a new disk but I want to transfer my @home volume from my old disk. As well as installed packages (pacman, aur, flatpak)

I at first tried to just do a cp -r but the problem is I have some files under my old home that our not owned by my user such as waydroid files.

So I think it would be better to just clone the whole @home from my old disk to the new one.

I found this https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/btrfs-sendreceive-helps-to-move-and-backup-your-data

and this Copying a BTRFS volume to another disk, the easy way 🌐:aligrant.com

but I couldn’t get it to work. the furthest I got was the second step of sending the snapshot of the @home volume to my new disk but it just hangs there and then eventualy black screens

[root@Garuda-Linux zany130]# sudo btrfs send /mnt/broken/folder_0 | btrfs receive /mnt/old/
At subvol /mnt/broken/folder_0
At subvol folder_0

from what I have been reading I can’t just dd either as that would clone my whole btrfs partition not just the @home volume. I don’t want to do this because the root volume of my btrfs partition is messed up and unboottable so I would just end up with the same broken install on my new disk

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EDIT:

hmm my issue seems to be that im running out of space on my new disk when sending the snapshot to my new disk… Don’t know why I should have enough free space on my new disk

What about sudo install /mnt/oldhome/* /mnt/newhome/* -g $YOURGROUP -o $YOURUSER -m 755

I recently learned about all these arguments which make install all the more useful :slight_smile:

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You are correct about dd, don’t do that.
In all cases (cp -r, btrfs send/receive, rsync) if the new user/group are different you would have to fix that afterwards.
I have no idea why send/receive did not work though, from what I remember that’s the way to go (and faster than the alternatives).
I think, comparing to the instructions in the first link, in sudo btrfs send /mnt/broken/folder_0 | btrfs receive /mnt/old/, the broken is the old and the old is the new? Or is that a typo, or is that you’re trying to send it to the wrong place?
I was also thinking out of space. Can you post the partition table and volumes list from both source and destination?

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yeah not really discriptive with the names lol. /mnt/broken/ is where I am mounting my old broken install.

/mnt/old/ is where I am sending the readonly snapshot of /mnt/broken/@home to

here is a lsblk showing that

lsblk -f
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL    UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda2      ext4   1.0   GAMES    d6a92575-7181-4506-80d1-84a9594f90e8
sr0
zram0                                                                                 [SWAP]
nvme0n1
ā”œā”€nvme0n1p1 vfat   FAT32          79CD-8D09                             298.8M     0% /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 btrfs                 8a69f047-feee-46cf-81a1-d299eb173883  896.5G     2% /var/tmp
/var/log
/var/cache
/srv
/root
/home
/
nvme1n1
ā”œā”€nvme1n1p1 vfat   FAT32 NO_LABEL 4AC6-7B21
└─nvme1n1p2 btrfs                 53e270ad-dfd5-4874-a125-69d21ada6b8d   59.2G    93% /mnt/broken

So from what I understand of the second article.

what I want to do is create a readonly snapshot of my broken install’s @home

then send it somewhere on my new disk.

then create a writable snapshot of that snapshot at /home/

I had part of my old home on my new disk so it was prob running out of space because of that (i thought the snapshot would be compressed and not be the whole size)

as for the black screen… i rembered my system had an issue where it would crash on suspund and garuda default is to suspend after 15 minutes

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I purposely used the same username and password so I shouldnt have issue right?

also remebered I didn’t make a backup list of my installed flatpaks going to have to figure that out.

for arch packages I a hook (bog i think it was called) that creates a gist of my installed aur and pacman files

It’s the numeric IDs that matter, usually 1000:1000 for the first user, but the group may be 1001 if you enabled autologin when installing.

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I did enable autologin when I installed this system. my old system had auto login to but not when I first installed it I believe

I suspect that complicates the matter. Can you elaborate?
Folders symlinked from the old home to the new home I guess?

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no left overs from my previous cp -r /mnt/broken/@home/zany130 /home/

the thing is I have some steam games there so the whole home folder is like 800GB

which if you think about it ofc its going to take awhile and a lot of space to move all that

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Hm, nvme0n1p2 btrfs has FSAVAIL=896.5G FSUSE%=2%, are the games not in the ext4 labelled GAMES?
You would be moving ā€œjustā€ the 59.2G of the old home anyways.
I think I’m missing something.
df -H says what?

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This strategy is fine, but you will want to use cp -a instead. cp -a preserves ownership, permissions, timestamps, extended attributes, and recursive copies of directories.

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What broke your old install ?
Why would you want to copy your @home

just pull from your old install what you need and archive the rest?

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Not even sure it just crashed out of the blue with some strange messages indicating disk faliure , though the disk is fine according to btrfs check and S.M.A.R.T.

so I decided replicate my install on a new disk. with all my old packages, flatpaks, and home folders

that a HDD so I have games I am not activlely playing there

anyway I got my home mostly restored some things like my KDE theme are not quite right (I think this is because i don’t have those themes intalled on my system yet, prob should of installed all my old packages then restore my home folder) but I am logied to steam and all my apps.

now I need to just restore my packages (pacman aur and flatpak)

aur and pacman packages I will use GitHub - DerekTBrown/pacmanity: Package List Gist Backup via ALPM-Hooks

no idea how to get my installed flatpaks from my old install though, like I said before its not bootable and I can’t chroot into it

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hmm seems it failed to install my packges for some reason

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Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Ok this isn’t working out I can’t install reinstall my aur packages as it complains error: could not find all required packages: so I am going with a diffrent approach

I want to fix my old install problem is its seems beyond broken as I can’t even chroot into it

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/broken
sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p2 /mnt/broken
sudo garuda-chroot /mnt/broken/@
[sudo] password for zany130:
find: '/home/zany130/pCloudDrive': Permission denied
chroot: failed to run command '/bin/sh': No such file or directory

I think some of the base packages like filesystem are missing or corrupt
I do have working snapshots but I couldn’t find anyway to restore them

That looks like network error though.
Compleatly new to linux and having an error witht the Setup Assistant
When they’re all *-mirror.chaotic.cx, commenting out the R2 (first one) in /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist should do.

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yup it seems like it was a network error. I also couldn’t get aur packages installed using pacmanity for some reason this didn’t work
paru-S $(sed -e '/^$/d' Garuda-Linux.pacmanity | tr '\n' ' ')

I had to get each package name and do a paru -s packagename which was a little annoying

strangely pacman worked fine with the above just not paru I guess you can’t read from a file and pass that to paru?

Anyway
as for flatpaks I just did ls /mnt/broken/@/var/lib/flatpak/app/ to get all flatpaks installed system wide (transferring my home already copied my users flatpaks)

So got everything in place

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