moving /var/mail to another machine
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Tue May 24 18:32:16 PDT 2005
On May 24, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
> 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
sorry typo above
should be
tar xpf ~user/var_mail.tar
Chad
>
> ????
>
> Chad
>
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