You will also need /etc/shadow for the shadow passwords. I would copy
over /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow first so the user accounts are there.
Then you can either use rsync (a variation of rsync -avz -e ssh
--progress old_server_ip:/home /home may work on the new server) or you
can go to /home and du -shc *|grep G and see who has the largest home
dirs (you may need grep M instead of G) and then scp -arR /home/user
new_Server_ip:/home and then chown -R username /home/username on the new
server for a few of the largest home dirs, and then delete them from the
old server to give you some space, and then tar -jcvf users.tar.bz2
/home/* and then scp it over to /home on the new server and extract it.
Aaron Reimann wrote:
Hi...
I am planning on going from a 36-gig Raid-1 box to an 250-gig Raid-1
(ide) box. The current server is Fedora Core 3 and the new one will
also be Fedora Core 3. This box is only used for Samba (file sharing
and printer sharing). The system works great, I just need more space.
So, could someone please help me out with moving user info and /home
directory to the new box? Here are some of the things I am assuming I
will need to keep me from recreating users and what not:
/etc/passwd - for system users
/etc/samba/smb.conf - my config
/etc/samba/smbusers - samba user info
/home - all user dirs and public shares are in here
Is that it?
Also, this might be the wrong place for this, but...I can't do a
tar.gz of the home directory due to the fact that the drive is almost
full. I need to make a tar.gz put | it to the new box via scp. I
have seen it done before, can anyone point me in the right direction
for a how-to?
Thank you,
aaron
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