From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 14 12: 5:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acmey.gatech.edu (acmey.gatech.edu [130.207.165.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCB537B41E for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by acmey.gatech.edu (Postfix, from userid 19753) id CA9B831F28; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:05:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acmey.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C163C330FD; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:05:32 +0000 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:05:32 +0000 (EDT) From: Michael Imamura X-Sender: gte255n@acmey.gatech.edu To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: Questions list Subject: Re: copying a directory and sub directories In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, G. Jason Middleton wrote: > I am in a jam an need to copy a 2 gig directory including it's > subdirectories from one machine to another....how can i do this without > having to enable ftpserver service on the source machine....in other words > I can FTP it from source to target...and since tar has it's 2gig > limitation I cannot tar the whole directory and subs. Are you able to use scp? scp big_directory user@otherhost:/path/to/dir You can also try NFS mounting a directory from the destination host. That way, you can just use "cp -R". Finally, you can also try an FTP client that can recursively upload whole directories automatically; I believe IglooFTP (a graphical FTP client) can do this. - Michael Imamura zoogie@lugatgt.org LUG@GT Web Guy http://www.lugatgt.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message