[mdlug] Transfering /home with scp

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 21:52 -0500, Ein Bielaczyc wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net> 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. 

<snip>

> 
> I've had much success using rsync to transfer files. If security is a
> concern rsync can employ the use of ssh to transfer data inside a
> secure connection. If security is not a concern then I'd also
> recommend NFS, as it is fairly easy to setup, and then use rsync to
> transfer.
> 
> Just FYI, the following would sync "/home" on Old-Machine and New-Machine.
> 
> As root on Old-Machine:
>        rsync -a -e ssh /home/ root at new-machine:/home/
> 
> There are many other options with rsync to control just what is, and
> what isn't, transferred.

	Thank you all for your suggestions and advice. I ended up using the
above method along with the flags for viewing progress. Everything
worked magically and all was transferred in a matter of minutes!
Everything works as expected and I am now happily using my new laptop.

Best Regards,

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net