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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:05:32 +0000 (EDT)
From:      Michael Imamura <gte255n@prism.gatech.edu>
To:        "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
Cc:        Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: copying a directory and sub directories
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0112141957050.20833-100000@acmey.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.31L.02.0112141417270.15328111-100000@irix2.gl.umbc.edu>

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, G. Jason Middleton wrote:
> I am in a jam an need to copy a 2 gig directory including it's
> subdirectories from one machine to another....how can i do this without
> having to enable ftpserver service on the source machine....in other words
> I can FTP it from source to target...and since tar has it's 2gig
> limitation I cannot tar the whole directory and subs.

Are you able to use scp?

  scp big_directory user@otherhost:/path/to/dir

You can also try NFS mounting a directory from the destination host.  That
way, you can just use "cp -R".

Finally, you can also try an FTP client that can recursively upload whole
directories automatically; I believe IglooFTP (a graphical FTP client) can
do this.

          - Michael Imamura  zoogie@lugatgt.org
            LUG@GT Web Guy   http://www.lugatgt.org/


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