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Message 17440 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 11:09:24 UTC

Hi. I've been running BOINC (and SETI@HOME prior to that) for some years on my Winows Desktop and Home Server. Now I'd like to migrate to Linux, since I changes the OS of my System. I located the boinc data files on the olf partition. Can I simply copy them to a new directory on linux and point BOINC to it or is there any other possibility to migrate the data, or at least the settings for login and projects?
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Message 17441 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 11:19:29 UTC - in response to Message 17440.  

Hi. I've been running BOINC (and SETI@HOME prior to that) for some years on my Winows Desktop and Home Server. Now I'd like to migrate to Linux, since I changes the OS of my System. I located the boinc data files on the olf partition. Can I simply copy them to a new directory on linux and point BOINC to it or is there any other possibility to migrate the data, or at least the settings for login and projects?
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THere are separate executables for both BOINC and for the science apps. You'll have to reattach to your projects. To make it less painful, you can save the account_*.xml files (where * is the project URL) and drop those in the BOINC directory in your new Linux install. Where they will go will depend on how you decide to install BOINC.
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Message 17442 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 11:25:38 UTC

Thanks for the quick answer.

I installed boinc on Gentoo with emerge. I have boinc_client, boinc_gui (which seems to be defunct) and kboincspy (fpr KDE). Where will the xml-file have to go and what do I have to do after I copied it?

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Message 17443 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 11:44:25 UTC - in response to Message 17442.  

Thanks for the quick answer.

I installed boinc on Gentoo with emerge. I have boinc_client, boinc_gui (which seems to be defunct) and kboincspy (fpr KDE). Where will the xml-file have to go and what do I have to do after I copied it?

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Sorry. I'm a Fedora person. Hopefully someone experienced with Gentoo will come along. I don't know where the Gentoo folks put all of the files.
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Message 17444 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 12:20:04 UTC

Is it a user-space application or a system application on linux? If it is a user application, I'd guess files go to the home directories. Where are the files in Fedora? Maybe I can guess where they should be on gentoo...
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Message 17445 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 13:45:14 UTC - in response to Message 17444.  

Is it a user-space application or a system application on linux? If it is a user application, I'd guess files go to the home directories. Where are the files in Fedora? Maybe I can guess where they should be on gentoo...


When installing from yum in Fedora, the data type stuff goes in /var/lib/boinc (which is the home directory).
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Message 17446 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 14:35:37 UTC - in response to Message 17441.  

There are separate executables for both BOINC and for the science apps. You'll have to reattach to your projects. To make it less painful, you can save the account_*.xml files (where * is the project URL) and drop those in the BOINC directory in your new Linux install. Where they will go will depend on how you decide to install BOINC.

If you copy the account_*.xml files, you don't have to (re)attach (I think).

But you'll have to convert the files from windows to unix format (concerning the EOL characters)! There should be conversion tools and some editors do it automatically.

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Message 17450 - Posted: 23 May 2008, 17:07:04 UTC - in response to Message 17446.  

But you'll have to convert the files from windows to unix format (concerning the EOL characters)! There should be conversion tools and some editors do it automatically.

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Good point :-)

You can use dos2unix from the command line.
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