From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 09:31:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08994 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:31:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hq.globix.net (hq.globix.net [206.139.190.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08986 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:31:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkatsnel@globix.com) Received: from globix.com (mescalito.globix.net [209.208.255.42]) by hq.globix.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Cleen) with ESMTP id MAA07826 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 12:30:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3690FB59.491C223D@globix.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 12:33:13 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Globix Corp. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "q's" Subject: disk space issues Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have the wonderfully exciting task of transferring a live web server to another box. We're moving it from Solaris to FreeBSD, so as you understand, I can't simply swap the hard drives... Anyway, the problem is thus: I have about 200M worth of content in one of the virtual servers, and only about 65M free space anywhere on the box. So I can't tar it up and move it. We have ftpd turned off on all boxes on the network, and use scp. I really don't want to scp every file (these are html files that make up 200m, you can imagine how many of them there must be!) separately... I tried to gzip the directory structure with gzip -r docs/* > docs.gz but that actually gzips every file, which is unacceptable on a live server. is there anyway I can get all these files into one gzipped one WITHOUT affecting the originals? or anything else I can do? thanks, Roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message