Moving Home Directories

[fchieli]

I have 2 Xserves running OSX Server 10.4.10 ,the OD master is in New York and the replica in Paris.
I have 3 user groups: AllEmployee, NYEmployee and ParisEmployee.

I have Mobility preferences managed for every user (AllEmployee), Background sync enabled and always managed, synching client home directories, skipping ~/Library .

New York users homes are replicated to the NewYorkServer/Users
Paris users homes are replicated to the ParisServer/Users

Now the questions:
1) I have to move one user from New York to Paris. What’s the correct procedure to migrate her home folder to the paris server?
2) Anyone why the exclusion of ~/Library works as expected using a Tiger client, but doesn’t using Leopard? (both users are not admin of the machines).

Thank you!
Federico

[luke]

Answer to #1

Use ditto with the -z option to create a compressed archive of the home directory. Move that over to the new server and unpack it. (See man ditto for exact details). Then go into workgroup manager, change the user’s home directory to ParisServer/Users. Change their group to ParisEmployee. This is approximately what I’ve done in the past (on Tiger), although I didn’t need to create a compressed archive because I was moving it between relatively close servers.

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