moving /var/mail to another machine
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Tue May 24 17:40:09 PDT 2005
On May 24, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to move all of the mailboxes (all of /var/mail/*) on one
> machine to another one across a network. I need to preserve
> permissions, uid's and gud's. (It would probably be good to
> preserve modification times as well). I can move a file using scp,
> but it doesn't preserve uid/gid
Can't you just do
cd /var/mail
tar cpf /tmp/var_mail.tar *
scp /tmp/var_mail.tar user at host:
ssh to the new host
cd /var/mail
rm -rf * # if you want to clean out the existing /var/mail on the
new machine
tar xpf ~user:var_mail.tar
????
Chad
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