-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Moving files to new server
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 20:32, Thomas E Dukes wrote:
I think the 'fresh' install of CentOS created an LVM
filesystem which
I don't have on the old machine. I copied /etc passwd,
groups, shadow
and gshadow as you suggested in a previous post about a week ago. That worked fine. I copied /home, /var, /root using rsync -avz. I think /etc got me, specifically /etc/fstsb. I made a copy
of fstab on
the new machine but it wouldn't let me copy back over it after the transfer. I'll be sure not to do that again. But I'm
going to need
/etc/httpd, /etc/sendmail, etc, etc, etc... (no pun intended).
Yes, /etc/fstab would be much different on a new LVM based install than an old install with version-level upgrades. Likewise for many other config files. You should probably copy the old files over to some other location on the new machine, diff against the default versions and edit in the parts you need. Otherwise you may be missing some new settings or different defaults that have been added to the new versions.
Success!!!!
Thanks everyone!!