moving /var/mail to another machine

James Skinner james at tunasafedolphin.org
Tue May 24 18:35:14 PDT 2005


Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> 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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you need to use tar-cvpf /usr/local/archive.tar /var/mail to preserve 
the permissions. then, youre cool.

Jamie


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