[K12OSN] Copying Files

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:30, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> Hello All,
>     I have what I hope will be an easy question for the more experienced 
> among us.  I'm setting up a new server and I want to move the /home from 
> the old one to the new one.  What would be the best/easiest way to move 
> all the files and folders to the new machine while preserving ownership 
> and permissions?

If they are both on the network at once, from the old machine:
cd /home
rsync -essh -av . newmachine:/home

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  Les Mikesell
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