Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:01:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Presence <presence@irev.net> To: InvictaNet Customer Support <support@invictanet.co.uk> Cc: Freebsd-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: move home dirs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031457020.3759-100000@irev.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKODAOKAJLGIOGBIAEEAHCPAA.support@invictanet.co.uk>
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Funny thing, I just did this last night, moving all the users and
directories from an old 3.5 server to the new 4.1 box. I used NFS to
mount the two servers together for a short while and ran on the new
server:
(cd /mnt/old/usr/home/ ; tar -cvlf - .)|(cd /usr/home/; tar xpf -)
It moved everything across perfectly, including .dot files and
permissions. I did the same thing for the /var/mail directory and
/var/log/httpd/ directories while I was at it.
Also, if you have a problem where user id's aren't being mapped to
usernames like I did, try running vipw, make a single change somewhere,
then save. It seemed to force everything to align up nicely.
Presence Morrigan o Inner Revolution BBS o 877-Im-31337
http://root.ws/ o http://irev.net/ o root@root.ws
> I need to move some users from one machine to another. I have already
> successfully updated the master.passwd file but now need to move the
> homedirs and mailfiles
>
> Any suggestions please?
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