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[mjehlenz]

Hi there,

I'd like to know if anybody has any experience in moving all accounts from a cobalt raq4 to a white box running debian linux? If so, how did you do it? Did it work? ;-) I am thinking about writing an import tool for the files the cmu writes...

Cu, Moritz

[D8Mike]

tar and move, site by site was the only luck we have had.

[mjehlenz]

Originally posted by Dimension8
tar and move, site by site was the only luck we have had.

Well, that would take quite a while, moving hundreds of vsites by hand... And I would have to recreate all the users, also...

Cu, Moritz

[iversit2]

It would behoove you to hire a seasoned shell scripter if you don't currently employ one. I've seen folks tear their hair out attempting to migrate entire machines via tar or perl scripts when a simple shell script would have shaved hours off the migration time. I mention this because I recently witnessed some poor guy trying to restore all user permissions on every file in the machine (over 200,000) via perl scripts. After letting him mess with it for about an hour, a simple:
for i in `ls /home | cut -d "/" -f1`;
do
chown $i $i;
done
fixed his problem