OT: cloning (copying) a HD over a network...
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Sat Apr 9 03:06:01 UTC 2005
That is a great idea. I never even thought of rsync. Thanks.
I'd still like to hear of other ideas, just to learn what other people
think.
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 02:51 -0600, Dale Sykora wrote:
> Kim Lux wrote:
> > The hard drive is full on our server. I can ssh into it from my
> > workstation. I've got a formatted drive mounted on my workstation ready
> > to receive the server files.
> >
> > How do I easily copy the server files to the workstation drive over our
> > network ? Keep in mind that I need to preserve the file ownership,
> > permissions and dates.
> >
> > If I had the new hard drive mounted on the server, I would use:
> >
> > cp -aR /olddrive /newdrive >> logfile
> >
> > I've tried using scp, but I cannot force it to preserve the file
> > attributes.
> >
> > I've tried using sftp, but I don't think it is recursive and I can't
> > force it to preserve attributes.
> >
> > I'm trying to use tar, but I can't figure out how to make it work across
> > a network. FWIW, I have sshd enabled on the server, but not on the
> > workstation. I don't have nfs enabled on the server. Can I do this
> > without enabling it ?
> >
> > Any hints would be appreciated.
> Kim,
> I would use rsync. From the workstation something like the following
> should work.
>
> rsync -Pav --rsh=ssh root at your_server:/from_dir/ /to_dir/
>
> replace user, server, from&to paths as appropriate
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale
>
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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