Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:23:17 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: moving /var/mail to another machine Message-ID: <p06210202beb9718eb0de@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac> References: <004001c560b7$c51c3910$d580a23f@lisac>
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At 7:24 PM -0400 5/24/05, Lisa Casey wrote: >Hi, > >I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one >machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve >permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to >preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using >scp, but it doesn't preserve uid/gid Check the port named net/rsync . You can sync a directory from one machine to another over ssh by using it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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