[K12OSN] copying data

Brandon Kovach bkovach at logrog.net
Wed Oct 5 16:25:59 UTC 2005


Thanks for the idea Les.  However, I am new enough to Linux to not
understand rsync.  Could that be the problem I am having now?  How does
rsync work and what does it do?

BK


> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 10:51, Brandon Kovach wrote:
>
>> Let's say that this fixes the problem.  I know how to copy users to this
>> new box.  However, is there a way to copy data from home directories?  I
>> don't want to copy user settings or anything like that.  I want those to
>> be all new.  I only want to copy .docs and things.
>
> Unless you are changing versions I'd probably rsync the entire home
> directory and then back out any .config files that seem to be
> breaking specific applications.  However if you really don't want
> to take any .files, you could cd /home and
> tar -cvf /somewhere/home.tar */*
> Or do a script that cd's to each directory and rsync's *.  The idea
> being that expanding * skips files that start with a '.', where
> tar/rsync directory recursion would take them.
>
> --
>    Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
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