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Subject: Re: disk space issues
In-Reply-To: <3690FB59.491C223D@globix.com> from Roman Katsnelson at "Jan 4, 99 12:33:13 pm"
To: rkatsnel@globix.com (Roman Katsnelson)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:56:19 -0600 (CST)
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In a previous message, Roman Katsnelson said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the wonderfully exciting task of transferring a live web server
> to another box. We're moving it from Solaris to FreeBSD, so as you
> understand, I can't simply swap the hard drives... Anyway, the problem
> is thus: I have about 200M worth of content in one of the virtual
> servers, and only about 65M free space anywhere on the box. So I can't
> tar it up and move it. We have ftpd turned off on all boxes on the
> network, and use scp. I really don't want to scp every file (these are
> html files that make up 200m, you can imagine how many of them there
> must be!) separately... I tried to gzip the directory structure with
> 
> gzip -r docs/* > docs.gz

tar -cvf - docs |gzip -c - >docs.tar.gz

Gzip syntax may be a bit off.


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