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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2007 09:48:25 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Server Move -  Quotas
Message-ID:  <20070524144825.GH98411@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <007a01c79df6$e8f71110$6501a8c0@GRANT>
References:  <007a01c79df6$e8f71110$6501a8c0@GRANT>

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In the last episode (May 24), Grant Peel said:
> I am about to migrate about 250 domains from 1 server to another.
> 
> The OLD server is running FreeBSD 4.7 and the new one is 6.2.
> 
> Every domain has a real UNIX user whos home is in the /home directory.
> 
> We are using user quotas to manage disk space.
> 
> Can I directly copy the user.quota file in the /home directory from
> the old server to the new one, or will I need to redo all the quotas
> manually?

If the uids are staying the same, you should be able to just copy the
files and run quotacheck to update the accounting info.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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