Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
On 8/1/06, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? Usually NFS or scp. There are other choices, though. For many situations my favorite is tar+netcat (w/ optional bzip2 compression). On the destination host: cd /some/path nc -l 1234 | tar -xjvf - And on the source host: cd /some/path tar -cjvf - relative/path/to/source/dir | nc destip 1234 If you don't want compression leave out the 'j' flag in both calls to tar. scp is your best bet if you need encryption though (take note of the -r and -C flags). I'll 2nd netcat... one of the most versatile tool I've come across in UNIX land! http://www.securitydocs.com/library/3376 http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html http://www.stearns.org/doc/nc-intro.current.html One thing I'd like to add to Johns comment is to not use compression if your on a GigE network, The overhead required to do this will max out the CPU, the net effect being very slow transfer rates. It also helps to not use tar -v, you will miss error messages if you use -v because the SNR is very low, it consumes CPU time too. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:52:09PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? I use a combination of scp and rsync. scp for odd files and rsync for directories. -- Frank echo f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k | sed 's/ //g' ---PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B--- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? Usually NFS or scp. There are other choices, though. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:04, Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? Usually NFS or scp. There are other choices, though. For many situations my favorite is tar+netcat (w/ optional bzip2 compression). On the destination host: cd /some/path nc -l 1234 | tar -xjvf - And on the source host: cd /some/path tar -cjvf - relative/path/to/source/dir | nc destip 1234 If you don't want compression leave out the 'j' flag in both calls to tar. scp is your best bet if you need encryption though (take note of the -r and -C flags). JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, David Banning wrote: This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? Last time I had to do this I used wget. Maybe not lickety-split for large amounts of data, but it was painless and I did not have to pay any attention once I got it going. I like the fact that it will recurse into directories. HTH. -- Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another
--- David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging from one to the other via the windows box. This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy -directly- from one fbsd box to another? If you have a secured connection I like using rcp. (complied without the evil conversion to using scp) scp works too but has more overhead and for rsh maintains permissions better. (I think) One thing to keep in mind is that if you are copying OS files, you may run into files that have the file (immutable) flags set such that even as root, you cannot update or overwrite them while in multiuser. (see chflags) Hope this helps. Nicole The Large Print Giveth And The Small Print Taketh Away -- Anon __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
