[mdlug] Transfering /home with scp

[Aaron Kulkis]

Peter Bart wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 	I'm finally at the point of transferring all my files to my new
> notebook. The old one is a T30 Thinkpad running opensuse 10.3 and the
> new one is a T61 Thinkpad running opensuse 10.3. Can I simply use scp
> to copy the entire /home? Or are there files in /home that would be
> specific to the hardware/operating system it's on? 

Why introduce the overhead of encryption between two laptops???

newlaptop # cd /
newlaptop # (rsh old_laptop (cd / && tar cvf - /home)) | tar xvf -

Or if you have a USB hard drive, just create a tar file
on that, then un-tar it onto the new laptop