That is a great idea. I never even thought of rsync. Thanks. I'd still like to hear of other ideas, just to learn what other people think. On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 02:51 -0600, Dale Sykora wrote: > 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, > I would use rsync. From the workstation something like the following > should work. > > rsync -Pav --rsh=ssh root@your_server:/from_dir/ /to_dir/ > > replace user, server, from&to paths as appropriate > > Thanks, > > Dale > -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
