Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:32:14 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: bsd List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine Message-ID: <E4E5B053-A85E-412F-95E7-3BB55BBF4CD7@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <1D53733C-BC53-434D-B9AC-DD2B8371E78E@shire.net> References: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac> <1D53733C-BC53-434D-B9AC-DD2B8371E78E@shire.net>
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On May 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > 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 sorry typo above should be tar xpf ~user/var_mail.tar Chad > > ???? > > Chad > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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