Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:39:27 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> 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: <20011214123735.F16958-100000@localhost> 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: > Hello all, > > 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. how about: tar cf - <directory> | ssh user@host tar xvf -C <directory> - that'll tunnel a directory, and all the sub directories, and permissions over an ssh tunnel. it goes fairly fast. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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