Need to move some files from machine to machine

[Kent Ostby]

My home directory needs to be moved from machine a to machine b.

I'm looking for a good set of cpio / tar options to get all my subdirectories build into one archive on machine a and then another command to unpack them on the other machine.

Thanks guys,

Kent

[Martin Johnson]

You could NFS mount the directory and fbackup|frecover the files.

HTH
Marty

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

Try this Kent.

tar -cvf - /home/user1 | remsh node2 "tar -xvf -"

[Tim D Fulford]

how about these

Absolute copy src:/home/dir is copied to tgt:/home/dir
on the target machine.
# remsh "tar cf - /home/dir | gzip -" | gunzip - | tar xf -"

or for "realtive" copy to different dir path
src:/home/data to say /home2/stuff/data

on target machine
# cd /home2/stuff/
# remsh "cd /home; tar cf data | gzip -" | gunzip - | tar xf -

I've used both.

Tim

[Joe Short]

Try rcp. first cd to one directory below your home dirictory ant the rcp the entire directory structure over.

cd /home
rcp -r -p mydir hostname2:/home

That should do it!

[Pete Randall]

Kent,

Assuming NFS is available, you can use cpio like this:

cd /net/machineA/home/Kent
find . -print |cpio -pdumxl /home/Kent

This will transfer everything under machineA's /home/Kent to machineB's /home/Kent.


Pete

[Kent Ostby]

Thanks guys.

I did the "tar" listed by Sundar .