Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:18:52 -1000 From: George Fontaine <sysop@mauigateway.com> To: Presence <presence@irev.net> Cc: InvictaNet Customer Support <support@invictanet.co.uk>, Freebsd-ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: move home dirs Message-ID: <39DA5B4C.4E77BFB@mauigateway.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010031457020.3759-100000@irev.net>
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You might want to look at rsync as well... Presence wrote: > 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? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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