Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:21:59 -0400 From: James Skinner <james@tunasafedolphin.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine Message-ID: <4293D337.50708@tunasafedolphin.org> In-Reply-To: <p06210202beb9718eb0de@[128.113.24.47]> References: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac> <p06210202beb9718eb0de@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, 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 > > > Check the port named net/rsync . You can sync a directory from > one machine to another over ssh by using it. > You could also tar it with -p. which would preserve the permissions, and then scp it, but rsync is probably a better idea. James
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