From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 01:35:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BB216A4DA for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 01:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from typhoon.enabled.com (typhoon.enabled.com [216.218.220.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE2643D46 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 01:35:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Received: from [172.24.241.10] (natint3.juniper.net [66.129.224.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by typhoon.enabled.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k841Z9dJ002555 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 3 Sep 2006 18:35:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin2@enabled.com) Message-ID: <44FB82AE.3000908@enabled.com> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:34:38 -0700 From: Noah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" References: <44FA6142.30609@enabled.com> <314FC15A-DA2C-4D03-9469-3522EE0C9FEA@shire.net> <44FA638B.5020500@enabled.com> <0F79193E-402E-41B4-AAE1-E7CBB39CC642@shire.net> <44FA64E6.10800@enabled.com> <44FA6853.2050103@partylemon.com> <44FAFBC2.7070001@enabled.com> <44FB19F5.80204@partylemon.com> <44FB1ACC.6040404@enabled.com> <712C8F83-C27F-4A98-8A1B-5C6A7DB5CA74@hackmiester.com> In-Reply-To: <712C8F83-C27F-4A98-8A1B-5C6A7DB5CA74@hackmiester.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Philip Q , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: migrating user and web files to new server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:35:11 -0000 hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > > On 3 September 2006, at 13:11, Noah wrote: > >> Philip Q wrote: >>> Noah wrote, On 4/09/06 3.58 a: >>>> this command also meets my coolness requirements. >>>> oldsys # tar -C /var/www -cf - . | ssh newsys tar -C /var/www -xvf - >>> >>> Which is almost /exactly/ what Chad recommended to you... >> >> >> kinda. this is the syntax I was looking for. > > I find it incredibly interesting that, while you REFUSE SPECIFY > exactly what you want, you find it necessary to deem certain commands > unacceptable! No one is going to freaking spoon feed you this stuff! > What you just pasted will do basically THE SAME THING as tarring and > scping it over, so what's the problem? The only difference is there is > no intermediate tar file. If that's what you wanted, why can't you > just SAY THAT?! > cool. it is different though. ssh and scp are quite different syntax. thank you. cheers, Noah