[PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 156, Issue 17 - Please God have someone change the subject. cloning old home tree

[Michael Rasmussen]

On 2017-09-09 12:18, David Phillips wrote:
> 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:
>> 
>> 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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