Comments on: Migrating user data http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/01/31/migrating-user-data/ The answer to life, the universe, and everything Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:58:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: <img class="identicon" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=77bfae11a6e64f5e8dba6236fbc65bbc&size=35&default=http://www.purinchu.net/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/85999e16b245759.png" alt="mpyne Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> mpyne http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/01/31/migrating-user-data/#comment-2958 mpyne Identicon Icon mpyne Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:24:45 +0000 http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/01/31/migrating-user-data/#comment-2958 I don't know what -d does but -p and -r should be sufficient judging from the manpage. It is of course just as easy to copy directories and keep the permissions/mtimes/etc. using rsync. I don’t know what -d does but -p and -r should be sufficient judging from the manpage.

It is of course just as easy to copy directories and keep the permissions/mtimes/etc. using rsync.

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]]> By: <img class="identicon" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=4d03b3a6d955283f28c8a8c3e232b9e8&size=35&default=http://www.purinchu.net/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-identicon/identicon/d066ca00f6a4d93.png" alt="Michaël Identicon Icon" height="35" width="35" /> Michaël http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/01/31/migrating-user-data/#comment-2869 Michaël Identicon Icon Michaël Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:10:50 +0000 http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/01/31/migrating-user-data/#comment-2869 "The simple solution, of course, is just to copy over everything in /home to the other computer using scp or rsync and hope everything continues to work. :-)." Sounds easy indeed... but does that preserve all metadata, such as "time of last change" etc? “The simple solution, of course, is just to copy over everything in /home to the other computer using scp or rsync and hope everything continues to work. :-).”

Sounds easy indeed… but does that preserve all metadata, such as “time of last change” etc?

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