[mythtv-users] Reviving a myth system after hardware failure on /var

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>  I might partition the new drive the same (or similarly) as the old drive,
> and format each partition as desired.  I would then use rsync to transfer
> the data from each partition (file system) from the old drive to the new
> drive.  I would then try to repair any known broken files on the new
> drive.  You might need to adjust UUID values for the drive/partitions for
> mounting.  I tend to prefer rsync over dd, because it only copies the parts
> of the disk that have actual data and it does respect bad blocks on the new
> drive that partitioning/formatting might find and mark.
>

If I use rsync instead of dd or dd_rescue, how do I make the new drive
bootable? The MBR will be wrong. I guess after copying the files I'll have
to boot cautiously from the old drive BUT mounting the right partitions on
the new drive and then do some kind of grub-install...

Anyway, after all that, and after repairing broken files (if it works),
would you leave it at that or would you try to restore a db backup?
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