On 23/07/2010, at 10:42 PM, Carlos Mennens <carlos.menn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a search on the web and there are so many different methods / > variations of using this powerful tool. My question for you guys is > very simple and I would like to hear from people on the list who use > this daily what the best command would be to transfer all data from > one server (srv_old) to my newly build server (srv_new)? > > I have one directory "/home" which contains everyone's mailbox & email > which I want to rsync from 'srv_old' to 'srv_new'. I am just looking > for the fastest and most secure method of doing something like this: > > rsync -avz ssh /home/ r...@srv_new:/home > > Thanks for any help! > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html The short answer is rsync -avz /home/ r...@srv_new:/home/ a - Archive. Very important to preserve permissions, and it also recurses the directory v - Verbose. Heavy output to stdout which is probably what you want if you are watching it z - Gzip compression on the fly You will be asked for a password and srv_new needs to allow root logins for this to work. If you are scripting this for backup purposes either set up public key authentication or an rsync server on the destination to avoid the prompted password. aF -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
