On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Kim Lux wrote:
The hard drive is full on our server. I can ssh into it from my workstation. I've got a formatted drive mounted on my workstation ready to receive the server files.
How do I easily copy the server files to the workstation drive over our network ? Keep in mind that I need to preserve the file ownership, permissions and dates.
If I had the new hard drive mounted on the server, I would use:
cp -aR /olddrive /newdrive >> logfile
I've tried using scp, but I cannot force it to preserve the file attributes.
I've tried using sftp, but I don't think it is recursive and I can't force it to preserve attributes.
I'm trying to use tar, but I can't figure out how to make it work across a network. FWIW, I have sshd enabled on the server, but not on the workstation. I don't have nfs enabled on the server. Can I do this without enabling it ?
Any hints would be appreciated.
-- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
If encryption is not the issue - but speed is, use tar and mbuffer http://www.rcs.ei.tum.de/~maierkom/privat/software/mbuffer/
on source computer:
tar -cf - / |mbuffer -m 50M -O {dest. ip}:{port}and on dest computer:
mbuffer -m 50M -I {src. ip}:{port} | tar -xf -and watch the files fly. This is how I normally move 20G of files from computer to computer.
ed
