>At 11:39 AM -0700 6/4/07, Knute Johnson wrote: >>I need to move my mail server and apache to another computer that >>will run F7. How do I backup my users and keep their passwords and >>mail files? Shoud I backup /home? Where are the user passwords >>stored? > >User account info is stored in: > > /etc/passwd > /etc/shadow > /etc/group > /etc/gshadow > >When setting up the new system, before /any/ user accounts are created, >take all the entries in the general user ID range (>500) and append them to >the corresponding files on the new system. Then a restored /home and any >other directories that might have those UIDs in them will show properly. > >/root is also a "home" directory. > >/var/spool/mail may contain user mail, which is also often stored in user >home directories. > >/var/www usually contains Apache httpd's files, and they may also be stored >in user home directories. > >/var/lib/mysql contains the MySQL databases. > >/var may contain other useful directories, depending on what is running. >Tomcat may serve from /var, or from wherever Tomcat is installed. > >/etc should be backed up, in order to have access to the current config >files for Apache httpd, sendmail, etc. > >You should set up and test the new server completely before taking down the >old server. You will probably have forgotten something that you want from >the old server. Thanks very much. What are the passwd- and group- directories? Are they some sort of backup? -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
