* Old laptop.
* New, empty hard disk.
* One Debian basic installation (no gui, just ssh server and basics)
* (one dist-upgrade to stretch, because of course)
* One ansible command (and some waiting)
* One mr command (and even more waiting)

The result: a new shiny installation with almost¹ everything I need on a laptop, including the programs I usually use, my configuration files, my data and my projects.

No proper backup involved, no wasted storage on backupping OS files.

I will properly document what I've done (including how ansible is used to get the starting mr configuration, solving my bootstrapping issues), but right now I'm just celebrating the result.

¹ I still haven't completed the list of packages², and in some cases apt installing at need works probably best.

² but the essential ones are there, including vim, screen, wesnoth and widelands :D