Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:41:28 +0500 (KGT) From: CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su> To: "Armando Campble P." <acampble@panama.c-com.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change Unix boxes Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810041033240.425-100000@freenet.kg> In-Reply-To: <3616245B.86780662@panama.c-com.net>
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> How can a move a directory (/home) or a group of directory(mail space > directory), file structure from one freebsd box to a second box that are > on the same network keeping the same file structure and owership as well > as privilige and verify if the file structure is the same on both. > > Please send command-line that can accomplish this process more > efficiently. 1. you can tar/gzip all the things and then move archive file to other box and untar it there: to tar tar zcfp foo.tar.gz /home to untar on the other box: cd / tar zxfp foo.tar.gz 2. do it via NFS setup NFS service on the other box, add there /home your_other_box(rw) then mount it and use cp -a or whatever you'd want to copy files To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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