Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
> Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) I have seen nfs for windows lately, although I haven't tried it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Wow! Good to know there's an abundance of solutions to a given problem that can be explored. Thanks a lot to all those who have responded to my original email! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
On Sunday 29 November 2009 12:23:47 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > > That's right. I've never used either tool before. Thanks a lot for > > the tip! > > Sure. If you're in the mood to learn about every possibility... > > You might also consider NFS: [...] Okay, if every possibility is what you want to learn you cannot miss the excellent combination of nc and cpio: On your target (bob): % cd targetdir % nc -l -p 6060 alice | cpio -iv On your source (alice): % cp sourcedir % find -print0 | cpio -ov0 | nc bob 6060 nc is short for netcat, it will listen on bob (-l) on port 6060 (-p 6060) for alice. The input comes from bob, who is sending the message via nc. In short it's like a pipe over the network (unencrypted, use cryptcat if your network is not trustworthy). cpio (copy in / copy out) does the actual data transfer. On bob the mode is copy in (-i) and on alice it's copy out (-o). To see what's being transferred you can use (- v). Finally, you can use find (-print0 / -0) to pipe the names of files to be transferred to cpio. Have fun ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Witbrodt wrote: > > Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) ] > Not true. You can install Windows Services for Unix, and use that to mount NFS shares. Of course, Samba is indeed much simpler to use for Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Services_for_UNIX -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksSX7QACgkQkPq5zKsAFihqqgCfaiIWHqp2687KsnKaQUJP36zR l1cAn1Sqito1PfRArBpyS0nwy1Q67JVn =0EIs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. Maybe simplest way is using 'ssh'. You can also use 'rsync', but if you've never used either before then learning about 'ssh' is arguably more important than learning 'rsync'. First read this: http://wiki.debian.org/ssh Then read about 'scp' (included with 'ssh'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy HTH, Dave W. That's right. I've never used either tool before. Thanks a lot for the tip! Sure. If you're in the mood to learn about every possibility... You might also consider NFS: it allows you to mount directories from one machine on the other machine. If the userid's are the same on both machines, this would be terribly simple and would allow you set up the NFS mount using very few (of its long list of) options. If the userid's don't match, then you can: a) mount with root privileges, copy the files, and change ownership afterward using 'chown -R' or b) mount with special NFS options to change the userid (and/or groupid) -- I sometimes do this using a directory on my GUI desktop, and then file copying automatically results in the userid/groupid matching your user on the destination machine Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always Samba! ;-) ] Just food for thought, DW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:28:18AM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > >>G'day, [snip] > >cd myfiles > > > >rsync -pavz --delete . 192.168.1.2:/home/alex/myfiles/ can I suggest to look at the S & H options sparse files and hardlinks as well, can save some transferrin time > > > > > >[Copies from the current directory . to the distant directory]. > > > >-pavz - preserves permissions, archive, verbose, will try to compress files > >in transit if appropriate > > > > > >If you don't have rsync, you can use scp -r to recursively copy almost > >identically - but the nice thing about > >rsync is that it will restart cleanly, deleting partially copied > >files and preserves an internal manifest of which files are up to > >date. If your 100GB is subject to change in mid transfer, rsync > >will copy only the files which have changed and catch up. > > > >Hope this helps, > > > >All the best, > > > >Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot for your input and the usage examples! > > I've never done anything like that, so I'm open to any suggestions > and am willing to give every piece of advice I am given a try. > > -- union, n.: A dues-paying club workers wield to strike management. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. You'll have to address the ownership on those files. If you're only copying your own files, rsync will handle this for you. If you're copying many users' files as root, they will be assigned ownership based on the UID number. This will cause a problem under these circumstances: Computer 1: user1 UID=1000 user2 UID=1001 Computer 2: user1 UID=1001 user2 UID=1002 If you transfer files from Computer 1 to Computer 2, user1's files will end up being owned by no one when they get to Computer 2, and user2's files will end up being owned by user1 when they get to Computer 2. -Rob Thanks for your input! Sounds like my situation belongs to the former category. The files I need to transfer from one machine onto another are my own. Good to know of what happens when dealing with files owned by someone else. Thanks once again! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. Thanking you all in advance. Alexander Kapshuk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Add rsync :) Call the user Alex and the machines One and Two for this example [192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2] If you can ssh from One to Two ssh a...@one Two or ssh -l alex 192.168.1.2 mkdir mynewfiles exit On One cd myfiles rsync -pavz --delete . 192.168.1.2:/home/alex/myfiles/ [Copies from the current directory . to the distant directory]. -pavz - preserves permissions, archive, verbose, will try to compress files in transit if appropriate If you don't have rsync, you can use scp -r to recursively copy almost identically - but the nice thing about rsync is that it will restart cleanly, deleting partially copied files and preserves an internal manifest of which files are up to date. If your 100GB is subject to change in mid transfer, rsync will copy only the files which have changed and catch up. Hope this helps, All the best, Andy Thanks a lot for your input and the usage examples! I've never done anything like that, so I'm open to any suggestions and am willing to give every piece of advice I am given a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. Maybe simplest way is using 'ssh'. You can also use 'rsync', but if you've never used either before then learning about 'ssh' is arguably more important than learning 'rsync'. First read this: http://wiki.debian.org/ssh Then read about 'scp' (included with 'ssh'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy HTH, Dave W. That's right. I've never used either tool before. Thanks a lot for the tip! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to > copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on > another machine via network. > > I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running > ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my > home. > You'll have to address the ownership on those files. If you're only copying your own files, rsync will handle this for you. If you're copying many users' files as root, they will be assigned ownership based on the UID number. This will cause a problem under these circumstances: Computer 1: user1 UID=1000 user2 UID=1001 Computer 2: user1 UID=1001 user2 UID=1002 If you transfer files from Computer 1 to Computer 2, user1's files will end up being owned by no one when they get to Computer 2, and user2's files will end up being owned by user1 when they get to Computer 2. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to > copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on > another machine via network. > > I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running > ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my > home. > > I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. > > Thanking you all in advance. > > Alexander Kapshuk. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Add rsync :) Call the user Alex and the machines One and Two for this example [192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2] If you can ssh from One to Two ssh a...@one Two or ssh -l alex 192.168.1.2 mkdir mynewfiles exit On One cd myfiles rsync -pavz --delete . 192.168.1.2:/home/alex/myfiles/ [Copies from the current directory . to the distant directory]. -pavz - preserves permissions, archive, verbose, will try to compress files in transit if appropriate If you don't have rsync, you can use scp -r to recursively copy almost identically - but the nice thing about rsync is that it will restart cleanly, deleting partially copied files and preserves an internal manifest of which files are up to date. If your 100GB is subject to change in mid transfer, rsync will copy only the files which have changed and catch up. Hope this helps, All the best, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. Thanking you all in advance. rsync can do it, and you can interrupt transfers and continue later if necessary. It also preserves permissions, ownership, etc. Thanks a lot! I'll give it a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. Maybe simplest way is using 'ssh'. You can also use 'rsync', but if you've never used either before then learning about 'ssh' is arguably more important than learning 'rsync'. First read this: http://wiki.debian.org/ssh Then read about 'scp' (included with 'ssh'): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy HTH, Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
Alexander Kaphuk wrote: > G'day, > > I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to > copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on > another machine via network. > > I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running > ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. > > I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. > > Thanking you all in advance. > > rsync can do it, and you can interrupt transfers and continue later if necessary. It also preserves permissions, ownership, etc. -- Hindsight is an exact science. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze which are both at my home. I'm not even sure how to word it in just a few words so I can google it. Thanking you all in advance. Alexander Kapshuk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
