Topic: Restore all users and userdata

[Tort]

Hi,

I have a fresh install of e-smith 4.1.2 with the available upgrades.  I would like to copy all our user data (messages, settings and home directories) from the backup to the new disk.  I have gotten this far:

# Version: 0.1  BushSoft

cp -rp   /mnt/backup/restore/home/e-smith/files/users /home/e-smith/files
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/passwd /etc
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/passwd- /etc
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/smbpasswd /etc
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/samba /etc
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/group /etc
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/group- /etc

cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/ppp/chap-secrets /etc/ppp
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/etc/secrets.tdb /etc

cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/home/e-smith/accounts /home/e-smith
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/var/qmail/users/assign /var/qmail/users
cp -prf  /mnt/backup/restore/var/qmail/alias /var/qmail

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade

... and now I get all the users in the manager's user account view, but I still cannot log in via Samba or use Webmail with the copied accounts.

What am I missing, can somebody provide a list of files/folders to copy and/or which steps to take to do this elegantly?

TIA

Tor

[Charlie Brady]

Tort wrote:

> What am I missing, can somebody provide a list of
> files/folders to copy and/or which steps to take to do this
> elegantly?

See the backup/restore section of the manual. Backup one server, restore to the other.

Or am I missing something?

Charlie

[Tor]

Hi,

I know how to restore the whole server, of course.

But I am having problems with a few configuration issues within the server/gateway so I would like to do a fresh install of e-smith 'as-is' and then restore my users data onto this install.

In this case I don't want to restore the server mods and configuration, only users and their data.

Any clue how to achieve this?

regards

Tor

[Drew]

Hey Tor,

Just curious how you made out with your restore of users and user specific data?  Do you have procedures you could share or are you using a hybrid of someone elses contrib (ie backup2ws)?

Regards,
Drew