From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 18:04:12 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 B2BB11065694 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E0B8FC16 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 9798365; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:04:11 -0400 Received: from [192.168.43.221] (account jon@radel.com HELO braeburn.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 9798363; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:03:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4C77FE0C.9050004@radel.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:03:56 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100711 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <4C77F3AC.8020908@gmail.com> <20100827102501.79222db6@eggman> <20100827175141.GB96341@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100827175141.GB96341@thought.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms010708030307020209020700" X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Gary Kline 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 18:04:12 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms010708030307020209020700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 8/27/10 1:51 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > i've already done 98 or so straight scp copies. the thing is how > to use rsync over to an empty ethic? [[ empty =3D=3D "there are no \ > dot files not .directories"] i want EVERYTHING from this desktop, > tao, temp on ethic. > > thanks > > =20 An alternative I use sometimes when there is ample disk space on the=20 source machine is to create a big tar file of everything in the user's=20 home directory, scp the tar file, and then extract into the new home=20 directory on the destination machine. Personally I find that slightly=20 easier to keep track of. There are many ways to skin this cat.... --=20 --Jon Radel jon@radel.com --------------ms010708030307020209020700--