From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 11 19:40:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95F837B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilsener.srv.ualberta.ca (pilsener.srv.ualberta.ca [129.128.5.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD8243E42 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 19:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dzeibin@ualberta.ca) Received: from [10.0.0.30] (h24-86-164-47.ed.shawcable.net [24.86.164.47]) by pilsener.srv.ualberta.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9C2eWXe004441 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:40:33 -0600 (MDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.3 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 20:40:43 -0600 Subject: Successful user/mail/etc migration to a new system from old system? From: David Zeibin To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I have an older box with about 20 users and all their related mail and such. I'm making a new FreeBSD box, and now I want to, essentially, transfer all the user accounts (with passwords and everything) and all the mail to the new system. I have the two boxes talking to each other already, and I will eventually have them configured (network, Sendmail, Apache, etc) identically. The new machine will physically replace the old machine. Is the switch as easy as, basically, copying the entire /usr/home directory plus the appropriate things in /etc (needed password files, etc), and /var/relatedmailstuff? What should I watch for? The Apache things are easy enough, but I'm a bit worried about Sendmail, especially if I forget something and the new box decides not to work right when it's live. If anyone has any good sites they could point me too, or some advice, it'd be much appreciated. I've found a few things, but everything seems terribly cryptic or lacking in detail: http://www.freebsddiary.org/user-transfer.php http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1153/sam0103h/0103h.htm As well, if someone could explain how to maintain all the permissions properly, that'd be wonderful. Thank you so absolutely very much in advance! Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message