On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Serge Pluess wrote:
> Hi there
>
> just use the tar command and if size matters you can have it also compress
> it into the gzip format (if you have the GNU tar). If not then you can
> still use gzip to compress the tar file.
>
> Let's say you have a directory called "public_html" that you want to
> transfer. Go to the directory above public_html and type
>
> tar cvf website.tar public_html
>
> This will put all the files in the public_html- and subdirectories into the
> tar-file. It will save all the path information starting with public_html
>
> Now you can compress it with
>
> gzip website.tar
>
> And you end up with a file called "website.tar.gz"
>
This will work fine if you have the disk space...
if not use this approach:
ruser = the remote user
rhost = the remote hostname
tar czvf - /tree_root | rsh -l ruser rhost 'tar xzf -'
You may have to source and destination in the
above to get the results you need.
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