moving to a new machine

Thomas Arendsen Hein thomas at intevation.de
Wed Feb 8 22:35:42 CET 2006


* Alan Hartless <harty83 at gmail.com> [20060208 20:41]:
> Now just to clarify.  All my user's data will still be available and in tact 
> on the new machine after I move over the /kolab folder and run the obmtool 
> right?

Correct, but be careful when moving the installation.

I suggest using
# rsync -aHvP --numeric-ids /kolab root at newmachine:/kolab.from_oldmachine
so file permissions, hardlinks and owner/group information stays
intact.

Thomas

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