[PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 156, Issue 17

[Denis Heidtmann]

Would rsync make my first question moot?

-Denis

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 12:18 PM, David Phillips <davidp at itanywhere.bz>
wrote:

> Why not use rsync to dupe the data?
>
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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:
> >
> > 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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