Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 18:40:07 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine Message-ID: <1D53733C-BC53-434D-B9AC-DD2B8371E78E@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac> References: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac>
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On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one > machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve > permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to > preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using scp, > but it doesn't preserve uid/gid Can't you just do cd /var/mail tar cpf /tmp/var_mail.tar * scp /tmp/var_mail.tar user@host: ssh to the new host cd /var/mail rm -rf * # if you want to clean out the existing /var/mail on the new machine tar xpf ~user:var_mail.tar ???? Chad
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