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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com>
Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine
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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