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Subject: Moving users to a new Vax
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Date: 10 Jun 88 09:13:53 GMT
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Date: 10 June 88, 09:04:03 GMT
From: Mark Nichols              (505) 646-4183       SYSMAN   at NMSUVM1
To:   INFO-VAX at KL.SRI.COM

We are in the process of upgrading our 780 to a 8530. This is a complete
upgrade meaning that nothing from the old system is being kept for the
new one.

Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I figure somebody else has done something
like this at least once. So I have a few requests for those that have done
it:

    1. Can you explain how you went about moving all the user accounts
       over to the new machine. It appears that you can use a copy of
       the old one and use the Authorize command Modify/device=NEW$DISK
       to reassign the default directory of all the users to the new
       disk.

    2. How about diskquota.dat. Do you have any com files that take a
       diskquota listing from the old machine and use it to create a
       new diskquota.dat file on the new one.

Thanks

                  Mark Nichols
                  Systems Programmer
                  New Mexico State University
                  SYSMAN@NMSUVM1.BITNET
                  mnichols@nmsu.edu