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To: Eddie Fry <eddie@Wicked.eaznet.com>
From: Freddijanto <freddi@elga.net.id>
Subject: Re: Backup Server
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At 10:28 18/08/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm in the process of creating a backup server.  The only problem I seem
>to be having is moving the existing password files (on a 2.1.5 machine) to
>the backup server (2.2.1).  Is there an easy way to do this?
>

I'm copying some files that contain the password database (passwd,
master.passwd, pwd.db, spwd.db, group, you may add ftpusers and
login.access if necessary) to the backup server. It's more quick and clean,
i think.