If you wish to manually transfer configuration information from an old server to a new server you can use the following steps. All the files listed below are required as user information & passwords is contained in many different locations.
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On the old server do the following to dump the mysql tables to a file in /home/e-smith/db/mysql/:
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signal-event pre-backup
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Copy all the following files & folders from the old server to the new server preferably using the tar command, see usage examples & syntax above in the section "Copying data to the restored server".
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You can exclude ibay & user data if preferred by moving that data to /temp (see steps in above section "Procedure")
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This list is based on the requirements of sme7.2:
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/etc/e-smith/templates-custom
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/etc/e-smith/templates-user-custom
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/etc/group
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/etc/gshadow
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/etc/passwd
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/etc/samba/secrets.tdb
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/etc/samba/smbpasswd
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/etc/shadow
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/etc/smbpasswd
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/etc/ssh
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/etc/sudoers
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/home/e-smith
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/root
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and add in
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/opt
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if you have stuff installed there.
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After copying all the required files to the new server you need to run the following commands on the new server: