RE: [SLUG] Copying Home directories to a new server

["Adam W" <woja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon,

> HI all,
> What are my options and what would be an efficient means to 
> copy users Home directories from one server to a new server 
> while preserving permissions? I have already copied the 
> passwd, shadwo and group file, but as there were only three I 
> did not mind resetting the permissions on the files - I have 
> 1000 users! - these were copied with samba as I keep getting 
> connection refused between these two servers using ftp. The 
> old one is RH7.2 the new one is RH9.

You could look at tar'ing the home dir's - there is an option in tar to
preserve all permissions... man tar is your friend.

Then once done, copy via samba or whatever u like and then untar on the
other side.

:)

Cheers,

Adam W.