Sven Joachim schreef:
Forgot about those, you're probably right. So the idea would then be to do an rsync -a or cp -p of /etc/, /home and /root, and in /var to at least copy /var/mail /var/spool, /var/log and /var/www, and carefully check what you need from /var/lib. Am I right?On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:Robert P. J. Day schreef:i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on the easiest and most error-free way to do that. i've already duplicated the software packages on the new server, so what's left is to transfer over the remainder of the configuration -- mail server, web server, user accounts, etc. the whole ball of wax. since both systems have webmin, someone suggested doing a webmin backup on the old system, then just restoring it on the new one, which makes a certain amount of sense as long as webmin can be trusted to reproduce configuration info accurately.Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do not follw symlinks in copying. That should do.No, at least you need to leave out /var/lib/{dpkg,apt}. And you have to be careful to preserve file ownership -- the uids and gids of system users and groups may differ.
Sjoerd
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