From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 17:46:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6101C10656A5 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195BB8FC0A for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7RHk89l037875 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:08 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100827174607.GA96341@thought.org> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <20100827172914.GE22105@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100827172914.GE22105@ayn.mi.celestial.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on ethic.thought.org Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:46:12 -0000 On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >guys, > > > >this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, > >~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other > >dot files? scp doesn't do it. > > > scp -r to recursively copy directories? That should get > everything in each directory. > > We tend to use rsync for this, making an initial copy to get the > majority of the files transferred before making the final cut > over, the ``rsync --delete ...'' to bring things up to date > before making the final switch. When switching to a new mail > server we have done this live with about 10,000 users, but when > we did this, we left the Maildir stores empty before the final > rsync and didn't use --delete on the Maildir directories. This > allowed new mail to be processed as it came in, and the older > mail wouldn't conflict as the Maildir message file names should > be unique. > > Bill > -- So what would the rsync line be starting from ~kline and pointing at ethiv? ethic is my temporary savings machine while i install the "newtao", m y new desktop. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org