[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.
>
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> Les Mikesell
> les at futuresource.com
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