FTPing directories

[Brian Atkins]

I am trying to copy several $HOME directories from an existing 10.20 machine to a new 11.00 machine. The 11.00 box is trusted and will not allow root login or ftp, but the existing server will.
I think my best option is to ftp over from the new machine to the old one, but I am not having any success copying the directories, and continue to get error: NOT A PLAIN TEXT FILE.

[Tom Danzig]

I would suggest you set up .rhosts (even temporarily) and use rcp to copy the directories.

See "man .rhosts" and "man rcp"

[Victor BERRIDGE]

As Tom suggests the use of rcp -rp is one alternative, another one would be to export /home from you HPUX10.X and mount the filesystem/directory on your HPUX11, then cp .
I hope for you the UIDs are the same on both machines...

Good luck
Regards
Victor

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

FTP (FILE transfer protocol) by design will not allow you to transfer a directory. You can transfer all FILES within a directory by using the mput/mget commands, but that is all.

I would agree that setting up the /.rhosts temporarily to allow rcp between the machines would be the best bet. You can then do an 'rcp -r' to copy the all of /home or all of the selected /home/whatever directories.

[Brian Atkins]

Thanks, guys. I went ahead and set up the .rhosts to allow rcp. I wanted to avoid that option for security, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do...

[Fred Martin_1]

Or you could use tar to create a file containing the directory and it's contents - then ftp the file to the new machine, where the files would be extracted.

[Tony Constantine_1]

tar them up and ftp them, this will keep all permissions & time stamps

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi
How about NFS - export the dirs from the 10.20 machine - mount it on the 11.00 and copy to destination.

Quick and easy.

Paula