dir copy

[navin]

Hi i have system A and have to copy a dir worth 3000 mb to system B . A:/usr/mas to B:/usr/mas - what is the tar command that i can use for this purpose.I have created /usr/mas on host B. I have copy with permissions.
Thanks

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

use rsync for thi purpose.

or tar cvfp some_file_name.tar /backup_dir,

and you could transfer it and restore,

scp -p 22 -r /backup_dir user@remote_server:/.


there are many solutions.

mikap

[Michael Steele_2]

B:/usr/mas ?? Is this a windows box? What is B:?

[OldSchool]

assuming you can mount /usr from one server to the other, the man page for tar shows:

Use tar in a pipeline to copy the entire file system hierarchy under fromdir to todir:

cd fromdir ; tar cf - . | ( cd todir ; tar xf - )

similar things can be done over an ssh connection as well, I believe. there should be an example of that here but I can't locate it at the moment

[OldSchool]

check this thread for examples of tar over ssh, and tar pipelines

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1111049

[Michael Steele_2]

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