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Hello list, See verbose background below[1] I've just backed up my oldmachine that I have been using recently to an external drive with: sudo rsync -avuAESX /home /run/media/mylogin/Backup/home I have a newmachine that I want to back up to the same destination and merge to that backup because I'm about to send it away for repair - which is why I've been using the oldmachine. I'm concerned that I've replaced some of the files in the oldmachine with symlinks, that I've updated some of t...

I want to backup my current CentOS-7.2 system to another drive. Is it safe to copy the system while it is running? Eg by mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt rsync -HPaxvz /. /mnt/ I've found contradictory advice on the web. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

...er drive. > Is it safe to copy the system while it is running? > Eg by > mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt > rsync -HPaxvz /. /mnt/ > I've found contradictory advice on the web. Yes. When we're cloning a system, such as a compute node in a cluster, or rsync upgrading, we rsync -HPavxz /. newmachine:/new/. rsync -HPavxz /boot/. newmachine:/boot//new/. As long as you're not copying /sys or /proc.... mark

...e system while it is running? >> Eg by >> mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt >> rsync -HPaxvz /. /mnt/ >> I've found contradictory advice on the web. > > Yes. When we're cloning a system, such as a compute node in a cluster, or > rsync upgrading, we > rsync -HPavxz /. newmachine:/new/. > rsync -HPavxz /boot/. newmachine:/boot//new/. Thanks very much to you, and all who responded to my query. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin

Hi, my problem is the following: i am trying to replace an old SUSE 8.2, Samba 2.2 domain controller with a SUSE 9.3 system with samba 3.0 as PDC. Everything works fine, i can join the new domain, i replaced the machine and domain sid from the new server with the old ones. But how can reuse the profiles from the old machine at the new one? If i make a simple remote copy, the settings of the

...= /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 0 time server = Yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups addprinter command = /usr/sbin/cupsaddsmb domain admin group = ntadmin add user script = /usr/local/bin/newMachine.sh %u logon path = \\172.24.150.210\profiles\%U logon drive = I: logon home = \\172.24.150.210\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 64 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes dns proxy = No wins server = 192.168.110.163...

Hello, I am getting a new computer and am going to need to move the files from the old to the new. What is the best way to do this? Should I install CentOS from scratch on the new computer then move the directories I need? How do I maintain permissions if this is the best way? TIA Eddie

On Wed, 18 May 2016 09:30:54 +0100 James Hogarth wrote: > And of course as will be pointed out by many the only right answer is yum > update anyway given cherry picking updates is not supported. The objective is not to cherry pick updates, but rather to install a second system with packages that match the first system. After fine-tuning the installed packages and stripping out the

...m.log doing parameter max log size = 0 doing parameter time server = Yes doing parameter socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 doing parameter addprinter command = /usr/sbin/cupsaddsmb doing parameter domain admin group = ntadmin doing parameter add user script = /usr/local/bin/newMachine.sh %u doing parameter logon path = \\172.24.150.210\profiles\%U doing parameter logon drive = I: doing parameter logon home = \\172.24.150.210\%U doing parameter domain logons = Yes doing parameter os level = 64 doing parameter preferred master = Yes doing parameter domain master = Yes doing parame...

...tinfo/samba>, <mailto:samba-request@lists.samba.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/ Hi there, I have installed this bugfix, because I need the smbpasswd -a -m command, but now I get a funny error msg from my linux box, it says: smbpasswd -a -m newmachine Unknown parameter encountered: "unix realname" Ignoring unknown parameter "unix realname" Anyone got any idea? I dont get this error message with the 2.2.1 version of samba. Thanks for your time! nik39 -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net GMX...