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

[Rob B <rbyrnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:39 PM 4/05/03, Ben de Luca sent this up the stick:

> Ahh glad to see what our tax dollars are paying for! My thoughts on IT
> managers are reinforced again.

OLMC doesn't get a lot of funding from the Government, or the Church for 
that matter.

Let's keep non-linux points of view on slug-chat, shall we?

Besides, the manpages don't tell you which would be more efficient out of 
tar & scp or cpio, do they.

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Simon Bryan
> Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2003 9:44 PM
> To: Slug
> Subject: [SLUG] Copying Home directories to a new server
>
> 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.

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