Re: [cobalt-users] Changing from Qube2 to Qube3

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam,

on 31/1/01 7:56 AM, Sam Hornbaker at shornbaker@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi, I want to move all of the user and group accounts,
> rights, and data from a Qube2 to a Qube3, and I'm wondering
> if there's some kind of white paper out there on how to
> properly do this.  It would be nice if I could back up all
> of the accounts on the Q2 and restore them on the Q3, but
> apparently this won't work.  I've contacted cobalt tech
> support about this and they don't provide a way to do it.

Wouldn't that be nice ...

I'm doing it manually with both machines on the LAN at the same time.  Once
the config is done I'm planning to just drag and drop the data during "out
of hours" then finally swap the identities so the new Qube3 appears where
the Qube2 used to.

Cheers,  Malcolm