Re: Tar problem

["Mark Thompson" <mthompson ed umuc edu>]

I have been using exactly that, just in the opposite direction.  I have been using the command

ssh -l user_name server '(cd source && tar cpf - *)' | tar xvpf -

This works fine for the user directories but doesn't work for the samba directories.

Mark Thompson

Rino Rogomentic wrote:

> On Thursday, 30. December
> Mark Thompson wrote:
>
> >I have brought up a Redhat 6.1 server with all of the lastest patches.
> >I am trying to migrate samba
> >users from the one machine to the other.
> >I am able to move all of the user accounts with no
> >problems using
>
> >tar xvpf
>
> >which preserves the permissions.  When I try to move the
> >shared directory on the same partition to
> >the new server, the permissions for the directories
> >are not being kept.
>
> --schnipp,schnipp--
>
> hi mark,
>
> try this one:
>
> tar xvpf - <source_dir> | (cd <target_dir>; tar xvpf - )
>
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