[mdlug] New computer

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 22:26 -0400, Garry Stahl wrote: 
> On 08/07/2014 09:25 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 19:07 -0400, Garry Stahl wrote:
> >> I have a heartbeat.  I'm burning the openSuse 13.1 disk right now.
> >> I need to move the /home directory from Phoenix to the yet to be named
> >> machine.  This never works as well as I would like.
> >> This time the new box shares no components with Phoenix.  Both are fully
> >> functional.
> >> Suggestions, offers of help, marriage, other?
> > Attach removable storage, backup /home.  Install on new machine.  Attach
> > removable media, restore /home.
> I might have a spare driver big enough.  Yea home is 378 gig, I have a 
> couple of 500s rolling around.

Also a good time for some house cleaning. :)

> > Or install on the new machine and rsync across a network from the old
> > machine to the new machine - WHEN NOT LOGGED IN AS THE USER.
> I should be root on both machines?  Why does that matter?

You can do it that way; it doesn't matter so long as you end up with the
right ownership in the end.  You can always chown {user} /home/{user} -
but you should keep the existing permissions - which both tar and rsync
will do.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA