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 Moving persistent data to new USB stick
Download Tails 0.23 March 19, 2014

Does anyone have a way (quick and dirty command line if needed) to move the persistent data from an existing USB install to a fresh install on a new USB key?

Someone care to mind dump?

Thanks

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  1. Install Tails on the new stick using the Tails USB installer.
  2. Boot the new stick.
  3. Setup persistence on the new stick.
  4. Shutdown.
  5. Boot the old stick.
  6. In tails-greeter, enable persistence and setup an admin password.
  7. Unlock and mount the TailsData partition that's on the new stick (e.g. using GNOME Disk Utility).
  8. Use rsync -a as root to copy the data from one mountpoint to the other.
  9. Umount and lock the new TailsData partition.
  10. Reboot on the new stick, enjoy.
Comment by Tails — Fri 22 Feb 2013 11:32:24 AM CET
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