Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:46:08 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? Message-ID: <20100827174607.GA96341@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100827172914.GE22105@ayn.mi.celestial.com> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <20100827172914.GE22105@ayn.mi.celestial.com>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >guys, > > > >this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, > >~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other > >dot files? scp doesn't do it. > > > scp -r to recursively copy directories? That should get > everything in each directory. > > We tend to use rsync for this, making an initial copy to get the > majority of the files transferred before making the final cut > over, the ``rsync --delete ...'' to bring things up to date > before making the final switch. When switching to a new mail > server we have done this live with about 10,000 users, but when > we did this, we left the Maildir stores empty before the final > rsync and didn't use --delete on the Maildir directories. This > allowed new mail to be processed as it came in, and the older > mail wouldn't conflict as the Maildir message file names should > be unique. > > Bill > -- So what would the rsync line be starting from ~kline and pointing at ethiv? ethic is my temporary savings machine while i install the "newtao", m y new desktop. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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