[ale] transfer of user accounts

[Benjie]

You should be able to use rsync with ssh i.e. "rsync -e ssh -av
source_directory user at new_machine:/new_directory."  If the two
computers are on a secure local network I would perform this as root,
and that should preserve the uid, gid, and permissions.  Of course,
the uid and gid info are only preserved if they are they same on both
systems, otherwise you will see their number values.

Benjie

On 6/6/06, Robert Karaffa <rkaraff at emory.edu> wrote:
> hi folks,
>         I'm replacing our aging webserver (Mandrake 8.0) with new hardware.
> What is the best way to transfer our user accounts and their info to
> our new server?
>
> We run Netatalk, Samba and Apache.
> We have over 250 user accounts.
> Their data is stored on a separate 80Gb drive in /usr0.  /var is also
> on that drive.
>
> I've been trying to nfs-mount that directory and do the transfer (cp -
> ax *) to the new server but I keep getting "permission denied" errors
> from the server.
>
> Is there a better way?  rsync?  tar?  I've tried tar and it failed
> miserably (I'm sure it is something I did not do correctly, and
> forgive me for asking for help, I am trying to figure this out on my
> own...and failing miserably...!).
>
> I want to keep the same permissions/owner/group flags for all of the
> user accounts.
>
> -Bob K.
>
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