[PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 156, Issue 17

[David Phillips]

Why not use rsync to dupe the data?


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>   1. Old home xfer to new? (Denis Heidtmann)
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> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 17:05:36 -0700
> From: Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PLUG] Old home xfer to new?
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> I hopefully have what is needed to put what is in home on my old machine
> into the new machine.  I have an external drive into which I transferred
> using cp -R the contents of home.  (I believe the uid is the same on both
> machines: 1000
> 
> The new machine home folder is /home/household which has about 35 items in
> it--11 "dot" files, 13 "dot" folders, and 8 other folders and 1 file.  With
> only a couple of exceptions these were created when installing Ubuntu 16.04.
> 
> The old machine home folder has about 85 items in it.  It is a 14.04
> machine.
> 
> On the external drive resides those 85 items + the folders below.  They
> need to go into /home/household on the new machine.
> 
> Two questions:
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> Many of the system folders/files on the two machines have the same names,
> as do the sub-folders.  How do I decide which to use: those from the old or
> those from the new?  (This strikes me as an opportunity to break some stuff
> either way.)
> 
> What cp command do I use to transfer the files so that they end up in the
> /home/household folder?  (I was surprised that when transferring the data I
> did not end up with a top folder called household.)
> 
> Thanks,
> -Denis
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