Re: RH7.2 -> RH9 /home migration

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, upendra wrote:

> I tried cut/copying passwd/group/shadow in rh 9.0 but
> scp hangs when i try to transfer /home from 7.2 to 9.0.

Not sure why it should fail: I backup almost 3Gb on a WAN connection weekly,
and for me it has always worked without a glitch (both servers are RH7.2,
though that should make no difference).

If the requirement for encryption is not stringent, you could export /home from
RH7.2 via NFS or Samba and mount it somewhere on RH9, for instance under
/mnt/home72; then, on RH9, you can use a 'cp -pr /mnt/home72/* /home/' or
something to the same effect. Both NFS and Samba are quite fast, and in any
event a lot faster than scp.

HTH,

Ant9000

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