On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 00:21, M.K wrote: > I could find the root/local directory. let say I created a tar file > and called it > my-tar.tgz I want to pass this tar file with ssh to my another server > for exxample > ' www.mysite.com' > > Where I have to put my tar file' my-tar.tgz' to the next comand > > rsync -essh -av . www.mysite.com:/path/to/directory The '.' (current directory) in this command is the source that rsync will send and the -a option says (among other things) to recurse through subdirectories. The /path/to/directory part of the command will create one (and only one) new subdirectory at the end of the path if it doesn't already exist. If you use that, you wouldn't have to create the tar file first unless you want compression or the convenience of having everything in one file while you rebuild your machine. If you do make a tar file first, you could use scp instead of rsync like: cd /dir/with/tarfile scp my-tar.tgz www.mysite.com:/path/to/directory or with rsync like: rsync -essh my-tar.tgz www.mysite.com:/path/to/directory If you have trouble with either of these, test your ssh connection with something like: ssh www.mysite.com id If you don't have root access to the other machine you can specify a user name like: ssh user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx id and connect with the specified user's password. The same user@host style works in the scp and rsync commands. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
