On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:44 -0800, Des Dougan wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:18 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > > You will need to stop Evolution backend tasks and the GConf daemon > > > before copying your data. On *both* machines (syncing the data to disk > > > on the source machine and not using old data on target machine): > > > > > > $ evolution --force-shutdown > > > $ gconftools-2 --shutdown > > > > This is a valuable tip... but... what are you supposed to do if you have > > to copy 10,000's of users from one NFS server to another, and you don't > > have access to all of the NFS clients, and no reliable way of getting in > > touch with all of the users? > > How about bringing the server up in single-user mode, or at run level 3 > if that's not feasible, so that no X services will be running?
This is great for machines an admin has access to, but the difficulty is that there are X servers running on a large number of machines, not only the NFS server... > Des
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