Are you running a domain? If so you'll want to grab most/all the .tdb files from the /var/lib/samba (I think) directory at a minimum.So, could someone please help me out with moving user info and /home directory to the new box? Here are some of the things I am assuming I will need to keep me from recreating users and what not:
/etc/passwd - for system users /etc/samba/smb.conf - my config /etc/samba/smbusers - samba user info /home - all user dirs and public shares are in here
Is that it?
Also, this might be the wrong place for this,
Just barely ;)
but...I can't do aWell, tar will keep your permissions, so just doing a straight up scp is out. The easiest way *I* would do it would be using nfs and tar like so... I believe you would need to have your home directory(s) provisioned in such a way that you could export the parent over nfs. In my setup, I have /export/home and then user's home directories are automounted out of that, so if I were doing it, I would do the following:
tar.gz of the home directory due to the fact that the drive is almost
full. I need to make a tar.gz put | it to the new box via scp. I
have seen it done before, can anyone point me in the right direction
for a how-to?
1. Mount /export on the new box to like /mnt/tmp or something.
2. Move to the container on the new box that will hold the home dirs (would probably /export again in my world , but we'll call it /newExport for clarity)
3. Run this command from /newExport:
tar -cf - -C /mnt/tmp home | tar -xvf -
Now the explanation of that command:
tar - we all know what that does
-cf - create an archive on a named file, in this case the file is -
- - special argument that is stdout (i believe)
-C move to the named directory (/mnt/tmp) before doing anything. This gets rid of the /mnt/tmp that would be prepended to all the file paths in the archive if we were doing something like tar -cf somefilie.tar /mnt/tmp/home
/mnt/tmp - dir to move to
home - directory inside of /mnt/tmp to tar up
| - pipe stdout (remember that - argument?) to the next command, tar
tar - no explanation
-xvf - extract, with verbose output the named file (-)
- - file to extract, in this case it's stdin
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