From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 12:36:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B40E16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:36:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.sentex.ca (smtp3.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFFD43F3F for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 12:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smtp3.sentex.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hB1Ka0xT003673 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:36:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: from pegmatite.sentex.ca (pegmatite.sentex.ca [192.168.42.92]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB1Ka4Uq082641 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:36:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: by pegmatite.sentex.ca (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D300217195; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:35:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:35:52 -0500 From: Damian Gerow To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031201203552.GZ13813@sentex.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <000801c3b7bd$2eb54740$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net> <3FCABADF.5090001@vonostingroup.com> <20031201040029.GB51594@sentex.net> <003801c3b7c2$9eb0a120$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003801c3b7c2$9eb0a120$df0a0a0a@visionsix.net> X-GPG-Key-Id: 0xB841F142 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7C1 E1D1 EC06 7C86 AF7C 57E6 173D 9CF6 B841 F142 X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: Moving to New Server.. Passwd Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 20:36:07 -0000 Thus spake Lewis Watson (lists@visionsix.com) [30/11/03 23:22]: > Thanks for the ideas on the other stuff, I am always looking for new ideas > and your post has certainly gave me several. I currently use Amanda for > backing up several directories, including /home, custom scripts, configs, > etc etc :-) If you're already using Amanda, you can just use your backups to 'restore' on to the new drive. > I did try rsync ( I just never got comfortable with it I guess) for a > short while myself but found that I like my tape backups. Also, I like the > idea of just moving the drive(s) over, this is really sounds good for > /home especially. That would make it easy to bring a new server online and > with the tape we also have a backup to go with it in the event of a > failure that knocks out the hard drives (Using raid 1) One thing that I forgot to mention about using dd -- it's a bad idea to use, unless the source and destination drives are *exactly* the same size. Because you're doing a bitwise copy of the drive, you can potentially wind up throwing things off. Not to mention that it does a bit-to-bit copy of *every* bit, whereas dump|restore only nabs the files that actually exist. > Thanks for the help with the question too, I wanted to make sure that I > wasn't missing something :-) Looks like you've got everything you need, to keep usernames and groups around.