From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 03:23:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE1316A4DA for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 03:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: from web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.178.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32B2143D49 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 03:23:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 62521 invoked by uid 60001); 2 Aug 2006 03:23:15 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=3KkR+RzOoDVugyh/6uanRreYMAznrMVSY7B2aZizxD+5rRO/ki4KXLIO3yfGst+Z7/DLav7ZECA5bXbEk+P/p1K8bwRjVaREjrOUQMOlTbQKQ3LS7n0E0WR9frtyCzI4EwJZQJht9xY4W2jLyIedAphqydiGzkacp7BEjaNPd6I= ; Message-ID: <20060802032315.62519.qmail@web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.112.21.27] by web34502.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:23:15 PDT Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:23:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "N. Harrington" To: David Banning In-Reply-To: <20060801175209.GA24100@skytracker.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:23:17 -0000 --- David Banning wrote: > I am installing a new server and have to copy many > files from old server > to new. I have connected a windows box to each via > samba, and am dragging > from one to the other via the windows box. > > This might seem like a silly question, but what is > the way to copy > -directly- from one fbsd box to another? If you have a secured connection I like using rcp. (complied without the evil conversion to using scp) scp works too but has more overhead and for rsh maintains permissions better. (I think) One thing to keep in mind is that if you are copying OS files, you may run into files that have the file (immutable) flags set such that even as root, you cannot update or overwrite them while in multiuser. (see chflags) Hope this helps. Nicole The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com