On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:50 PM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 26, 3:28 pm, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > *All* information -- worksheets, logins, etc. -- is in >> > /home/notebook/sage_notebook. To migrate the entire notebook to a new >> > vmware image all you have to do is copy the sage_notebook directory >> > over. That's what your sysadmin evidently tried maybe to do, and if >> > he/she were to do it then it would work fine. Commands to do this: >> >> > cd /home/notebook/ >> > tar jcvf sage_notebook.tar.bz2 sage_notebook >> > scp sage_notebook.tar.bz2 [somewhere] >> >> > login to new machine >> >> > cd /home/notebook >> > rm -rf sage_notebook >> > scp [somewhere]/sage_notebook.tar.bz2 >> > tar jxvf sage_notebook.tar.bz2 >> >> We just tried that with upgrading (from 3.0.6) to 3.2.3, the most >> recent image available. Apparently it did not work; I will ask for >> details and report back. The only additional thing sysadmin did which >> is not above was to remove the (7 GB!!!) of snapshots which had been >> generated, but presumably that wouldn't cause a problem, would it? >> > > sysadmin: "The instructions you included for copying the notebooks is > nearly exactly what I did except I didn't use bzip2 for compression > AND I excluded the snapshot files. Even after restarting the system, > however, I was not able to log in unless I created a new notebook. I > suppose I could try copying the snapshots, but there is a huge number > of them (perhaps several gigabytes worth)..."
The snapshots are irrelevant. Are you using the sage-vmware-3.2.3.zip VMware for Windows virtual machine? What are you using? If you get the permissions right, etc., then copying the .sage directory over must work. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
