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Transferring permissions/groups/users to new server?
Posted 5 years ago
#1
Whats the best way to go about transfering permissions/groups/users to a new server.

Ive copied the covalence, groups, lang, and users files over to the new server, booted it up to check the groups, and none of the groups exist.

Is there a key or token that needs to be transfered as well? Are there ties within these files to the specific server it originates from, that needs to be adjusted to reflect the new server data?

Please dont tell me that the only way to trasnfer is by manually hand jamming the data from the old files into the new servers files. That would be terrible news.
Posted 5 years ago
#2
Files should work, make sure both servers are offline during transfer.
Posted 5 years ago
#3

They were both offline. I pulled the files from the old server, while offline. Copy and pasted them into the new server, also while offline, and allowed the new server to boot up. Once it was online, I checked the groups, and they were not present, along with the permissions and users not being there. 

I opened the original files separately on my machine to check if the data was even on the files, and all of the data was there, as it should have been. 

For some reason, the files are getting wiped, post bootup from the server, even when performing the xfer as intended (offline). The weird part is, I have done this before a few times, and have had no issues at all. Im not using FTP, I have full access to the new machine, so I can rule out any possible FTP program errors wiping the data in transit.

Posted 5 years ago
Last updated 5 years ago
#4
The files would only be wiped if the server was already running that you were transferring to, which would cause whatever is in memory to be saved to file, overwriting the existing files. There's no reason why the files would not be used otherwise.
Posted 5 years ago
#5
Interesting, Each time i transfered the files, the server was completely offline. 

Ive even tried reinstalling oxide completely, followed by a shutdown, xfer of files, then startup, with the same results. 

Maybe a full reinstall of the rust server files would do somthing?
Posted 5 years ago
#6
A reinstall shouldn't matter. The files are only read once on startup and saved when the server saves (i.e., on shutdown). Only other possibility is that the files copied were corrupted somehow, either from being partially written to by the other server, else via transfer.
Posted 5 years ago
#7
Gotcha. Ill do a shutdown, and pull another copy of the files, and try utilizing those. 

Shot in the dark, but is there a way to validate the integrity of the files, other than pasting them in (using the proper procedure), and seeing if they work? 

Either way, I appreciate the information!
Posted 5 years ago
#8
Not really at the moment, pretty much if they work they work, else not.
Posted 5 years ago
#9
Right on! ill try a few more things.

thank you for all the help!