From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 3 15:19:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from www.mauigateway.com (www.mauigateway.com [205.166.249.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE4237B503 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mauigateway.com (mg2-141.mauigateway.com [208.142.181.141]) by www.mauigateway.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA11620; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:19:27 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from sysop@mauigateway.com) Message-ID: <39DA5B4C.4E77BFB@mauigateway.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:18:52 -1000 From: George Fontaine Reply-To: sysop@mauigateway.com Organization: Maui Gateway X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD ezn/58/n (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Presence Cc: InvictaNet Customer Support , Freebsd-ISP Subject: Re: move home dirs References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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