[ale] transfer of user accounts

[rkaraff at emory.edu (Robert Karaffa)]

hi folks,
	I'm replacing our aging webserver (Mandrake 8.0) with new hardware.   
What is the best way to transfer our user accounts and their info to  
our new server?

We run Netatalk, Samba and Apache.
We have over 250 user accounts.
Their data is stored on a separate 80Gb drive in /usr0.  /var is also  
on that drive.

I've been trying to nfs-mount that directory and do the transfer (cp - 
ax *) to the new server but I keep getting "permission denied" errors  
from the server.

Is there a better way?  rsync?  tar?  I've tried tar and it failed  
miserably (I'm sure it is something I did not do correctly, and  
forgive me for asking for help, I am trying to figure this out on my  
own...and failing miserably...!).

I want to keep the same permissions/owner/group flags for all of the  
user accounts.

-Bob K.

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