Server Move - Quotas

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu May 24 14:48:41 UTC 2007


In the last episode (May 24), Grant Peel said:
> I am about to migrate about 250 domains from 1 server to another.
> 
> The OLD server is running FreeBSD 4.7 and the new one is 6.2.
> 
> Every domain has a real UNIX user whos home is in the /home directory.
> 
> We are using user quotas to manage disk space.
> 
> Can I directly copy the user.quota file in the /home directory from
> the old server to the new one, or will I need to redo all the quotas
> manually?

If the uids are staying the same, you should be able to just copy the
files and run quotacheck to update the accounting info.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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