Moving to New Server.. Passwd Questions

[Lewis Watson]

> Getting back to the original question, yes.  If *all* you want to
maintain
> is userid<->username, groupid<->groupname mappings (and user passwords),
> then that should be all you need.  But you'll also need home
directories,
> and limits you've put in place, and any other custom configuration
you'll
> want to copy over.
>
Hi  Damian,
Thanks for the ideas on the other stuff, I am always looking for new ideas
and your post has certainly gave me several. I currently use Amanda for
backing up several directories, including /home, custom scripts, configs,
etc etc :-)

I did try rsync ( I just never got comfortable with it I guess) for a
short while myself but found that I like my tape backups. Also, I like the
idea of just moving the drive(s) over, this is really sounds good for
/home especially. That would make it easy to bring a new server online and
with the tape we also have a backup to go with it in the event of a
failure that knocks out the hard drives (Using raid 1)

Thanks for the help with the question too, I wanted to make sure that I
wasn't missing something :-)
Lewis