On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:06 -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
I have a new Centos installation that has an empty /home dir and there are no users...just root. I want to move the home directory from another server to the new one. At this time the old /home directory has been tarred with "-prf". That will keep permissions which could be a problem.
How big is this file? -z would have also compressed it. Alternately, see below.
Is there a simple way to move the /home directory? And the non-system users in the password and group files?
1. sort and extract the non-system users/groups from the respective /etc files passwd/shadow/group. scp the delta files to new system and append them to the respective files there. 2. scp/rsync /home/ (from old system) to /home (new system) see man scp/rsync. Note options for compression and sym links. 3. Ensure file/dir ownership at /home. If need be use "chown -R <userid>: on <userid>/"
The above is off the cuff :)
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