[mdlug] Transfering /home with scp

[Dave Arbogast]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:

>Peter Bart wrote:
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>>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? 
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>>
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>Why introduce the overhead of encryption between two laptops???
>
>newlaptop # cd /
>newlaptop # (rsh old_laptop (cd / && tar cvf - /home)) | tar xvf -
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>Or if you have a USB hard drive, just create a tar file
>on that, then un-tar it onto the new laptop
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There's no encryption with NFS either. If you want to transfer 
_everthing_ without regard to what's on the new one, then Aaron is 
right. If you want to be selective, I'd do NFS.

-dave