Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 21:37:04 -0400 From: James Skinner <james@tunasafedolphin.org> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: bsd List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine Message-ID: <4293D6C0.8070400@tunasafedolphin.org> In-Reply-To: <E4E5B053-A85E-412F-95E7-3BB55BBF4CD7@shire.net> References: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac> <1D53733C-BC53-434D-B9AC-DD2B8371E78E@shire.net> <E4E5B053-A85E-412F-95E7-3BB55BBF4CD7@shire.net>
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > 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" >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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" you need to use tar-cvpf /usr/local/archive.tar /var/mail to preserve the permissions. then, youre cool. Jamie
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