Hey, On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Raymond Norton wrote: > I have a RedHat 7.1 box being used mostly for a mail server that is acting > erratic. It seems to be hardware related, so I need to backup and restore > all user info and home directories to a new server, which will be running > RedHat 8.0. I want to be sure to get it right. Is there a tool for this, > or a specific process to insure success? What I usually do is mount the 'new machine' harddrive on the old machine, and then use cpio to copy the home directories over, as in: oldmachine:/home# find . print|cpio -pVd /mnt/newmachine/home Then you copy your old /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow ovewr to the new machine, and you're done. -Yaron --