On 9/16/05, Brian D. McGrew <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm taxed with moving a 200GB filesystem from one server to another. If > it wasn't so big I'd think nothing of it and use the told 'tar | rsh' > trick but I'm a bit concerned since it's over 200GB and 730,000 files. > > Is it safe to use tar or should I use dump or a script and '/bin/cp' or > what? > rsync -avP -e ssh local_source user@new_server:remote_destination/ That will put local_source/ on the new_server in the remote_destination/ directory. Man rsync for more details. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman
