If you've Vista and tried using the "improved" backup, you likely hate it. I hate it so much I switched to using Robocopy to get a selective differential "backup" (with ACLs), but anything in-use ...

Anybody know if I can just copy and paste passwd and shadow file entries from one server to another?<BR><BR>I want to migrate users off of one server onto another, but I don't want to have to ask them ...

You could obviously make many of these kinds of changes by editing the related files as root. For example, you could change a username by replacing it in the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files and then ...