Urgent Help Needed for Gutsy

[Butch Arias]

Greetings!

I am from the Philippines. Our entire school has been using Edubuntu for two years (6.06 LTS and 7.04) on thin clients.  Around 300 students and 30 teachers have their individual accounts and groups - and we never had problems until we upgraded to 7.10.  After the upgrade, the thin clients don't boot anymore, and worse, even the server's DHCP  could not be located by the workstation clients. We checked and rechecked the cables and they were all well.

We are planning to reinstall the 7.04 but we need all the student and teacher accounts and documents from the server. How are the accounts and documents transferred to a new HD if it is desired to have a clean installation of Edubuntu? I am afraid that the accounts may get lost and the documents become inaccessible  considering that permissions for folders and documents vary from groups and individual accounts. 

We need to preserve all the user account data and documents but we desire to have all the system files related to 7.10 ignored in the backup as we suspect some conflict with the hardware and software when we upgraded to 7.10. I believe our present backup includes system files.We are also considering a clean install of 7.10 onto another server then a restore procedure for the user accounts and documents to test if the system will not crash.

In this connection, please help us in the procedure to backup and restore group and user accounts as well as documents documents for Edubuntu.


Thank you very much,
Butch Arias
Saint Philomena School, Lucena City, Philippines


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