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...ember share on a non domain member server in order to back it up with a command in the /etc/fstab. This no longer works and even when I specify the administrator and password I have a wrong password error. Here?s the 3.0.28 config file [global] workgroup = workgroup netbios name = OldSystem passdb backend=ldapsam:ldap://System.MyGroup.com idmap backend = ldap://192.168.1.1 security = domain encrypt passwords= yes ldap suffix=dc=MyGroup,dc=com ldap machine suffix = ou=Computers ldap user suffix =ou=Users ldap group suffix =ou=Groups ldap adm...

...oblems handling weird inode types. My typical recipe is: - rescue boot the new system and create my desired disk partitioning - decide what top level directories I want duplicated on the new system - iterate through them: for i in bin boot lib etc .... ; do mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/$i ssh root@$OLDSYSTEM "cd /$i && find . -xdev -print0 | cpio --null -oaVc" | (cd /mnt/sysimage/$i && cpio --no-absolute-filenames -imVdc ) done - make any adjustments that might necessary in the configuration - if this was a copy of a running system I might quiesce the original, do a final rsy...

I recently asked about copying a running system to a new drive. As a postscript, I'm wondering if it would have been preferable to run the machine under a Live OS, and simply copy the root partition to the new drive? Eg while running under the LiveOS, # mkdir /mnt/old /mnt/new # mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/old # mount /dev/sdb6 /mnt/new # cp -avx /mnt/old /mnt/new or # rsync -ax