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Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine
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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