[techtalk] Moving up.

[Rod Longhofer]

I have been a member of this list for awhile. Have been able to help a
few people with bits of knowledge. Now I am asking for your help. I am
upgrading my server to a faster more roomier system. I have about 15
users and several hosted web sites, and various virtual email users. I
am using RH 6.2 , and know i can backup the /home directory, and copy
the passwd database over.  I had seen one time the command in this
mailing list for using tar to do that. I looked around the old mailing
lists, but its not searchable. Wished I had saved that command...
(hint... hint...)

 Anyway, my question is.  does tar keep the files by the owner name or
UID, this would make a difference as if I hand enter the users again,
(moving some actual users to just virtual email) for instance, I may
have different username to UID.  Will the files match the proper UID
with user name?


Regards,
Rod Longhofer