Re: [rdiff-backup-users] using rdiff-backup for server migration

[Keith Edmunds]

On 09/03/2006 5:55:24 AM +0100
Noah <address@hidden> said:

> So we built a new server and want to migrate
> the user and web data file to the new machine.  any recommendations
> about how to get rdiff-backup to help us perform these tasks?

I wouldn't do it with rdiff-backup. However, if you did want to do it
that way for some reason, backup the files from the old server and
restore to the new one (have I missed something?).

I would set up the new server with all the required software, /ensure/
that the group and user ids are the same between the two systems (this
just makes life easier), and do either:

oldsys # tar -C /var/www -cf - . | ssh newsys tar -C /var/www -xvf -

(or use rsync or scp)

and repeat for each tree of files you want to replicate.