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From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>
To: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
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Subject: Re: copying a directory and sub directories
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Regarding rsync, which in some tests I've run copying old hardware's OS
and files to a new replacement works very well, I have a question.

If I need to copy entire directories of users --their home directories and
contents, how do I copy them?

for example:

bash2.0.3> rsync -uavv eris.njit.edu:/usr/online /usr/online

will attempt to copy in verbose archive mode, updated files from the
remote machine to the local machine (the /usr/online directory in total)

but, as I can't ssh as root, (I am the machines admin), the user files in
the directory (and the directory, itself) are owned by their respective
users and my non-root account doesn't have permissions to copy.

Have I missed something in rsync, or do I need to edit ssh (rsync's
default transport) to allow root logins?  I'm not exactly thrilled by the
prospect of allowing root ssh access, but I'll reconfigure ssh if I have
to.

Thanks,

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT

On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, Steve Wingate wrote:

> rysnc
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:20:45 -0500
> "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks to anyone who can help.
> >
> >
> >
> > G. Jason Middleton
> >
> >
> >
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