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
I found this page: http://www.unixguide.net/ibm/faq/faq1.604.shtml which
says I can do either:
$rsh RemoteHost "cd TargetDir; tar -cBf - ." | tar -xvBf -
or
rcp -rp host1:/dir host2:/dir
I'm trying it using a users home directory first just to make sure I can get
this right, but so far I'm not having much luck.
Could someone here suggest the best way for me to move these mailboxes (and
perhaps help me out a little with the actual syntax of the command I would
use)?
I realise that there will be a problem with mailboxes that don't have
usernames on the remote system (the system I'm copying the mailboxes to) but
most of the users currently exist on the remote system, it will be easy
enough to do a adduser to add in those that aren't already on there.
I hope I'm explaining myself clearly here, it's been a long day already :-)
Thanks,
Lisa
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