[ale] Copying directory structure from one machine to another

[Adrin]

If the other system is on a network or you can put the drive in the news system. I would
just mnt the directory and then use mv to the correct location.

You should be able to copy as root and use umask in some way to not change the current
settings. In any case if you do you can restore them by using chown -R user:group
/home/userdirectory.

Really have to be careful what you copy though. Some things you may not want in the newer
system such as old .profile files and such.

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Chum [mailto:jchum at aismedia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 4:40 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Copying directory structure from one machine to another
>
>
> I'm attempting to move an ancient client of ours from a legacy machine to a
> new dedicated box and so I've checked the size of the directory (du -sh
> /home/user) and it resulted in 430 MB. Then I tarred it up (tar -cvpof
> backup.tar /home/user) and then moved it over to the other machine via
> RSYNC.
>
> The problem is that after I extract it, it's now at 320 MB. There were only
> 2 files that did not extract because it couldn't set permissions correctly.
>
> If I performed a cp -rf /home/user and copied it to my account and compared
> the file size of the old directory and new directory, the new directory is
> 600 MB.
>
> What exactly could be the problem? Is there a better way to zip up a
> directory, retain the permissions and ownership?
>
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Chum
> Systems Developer
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