Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:56:19 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: rkatsnel@globix.com (Roman Katsnelson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk space issues Message-ID: <199901041756.LAA22038@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <3690FB59.491C223D@globix.com> from Roman Katsnelson at "Jan 4, 99 12:33:13 pm"
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In a previous message, Roman Katsnelson said: > 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 tar -cvf - docs |gzip -c - >docs.tar.gz Gzip syntax may be a bit off. -- _ <_) o ______ /|__ | __\___....---~ /| ~~\| | ____/_|_ _|> |~~/~~~---....__/ / |/~~~ | |_/ --===OOOOOO= | YeeeeeeHaaaaaaaa! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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