Re: [Evolution] Moving settings between computers

[Dan Stromberg <strombrg dcs nac uci edu>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 19:44 -0800, Des Dougan wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:18 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > > You will need to stop Evolution backend tasks and the GConf daemon
> > > before copying your data. On *both* machines (syncing the data to disk
> > > on the source machine and not using old data on target machine):
> > >
> > > $ evolution --force-shutdown
> > > $ gconftools-2 --shutdown
> >
> > This is a valuable tip... but... what are you supposed to do if you have
> > to copy 10,000's of users from one NFS server to another, and you don't
> > have access to all of the NFS clients, and no reliable way of getting in
> > touch with all of the users?
>
> How about bringing the server up in single-user mode, or at run level 3
> if that's not feasible, so that no X services will be running?

This is great for machines an admin has access to, but the difficulty is
that there are X servers running on a large number of machines, not only
the NFS server...

> Des

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