How do I tar to another computer?
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From: AZ Nomad on 1 Jun 2010 10:54 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 05:22:26 +0000 (UTC), jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish(a)geocities.com> wrote: >On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:48:38 -0700, Todd wrote: >> No ssh anything, so no secure cp (scp). But I do think a rudimentary >> ftp is there. Thank you for the tip! >> >> -T >No scp. How about rcp? ncat is a quick and dirty way to copy data over a network
From: Robert Nichols on 1 Jun 2010 11:40 On 05/31/2010 11:34 PM, Todd wrote: > Hi All, > > I got tasked on upgrading a 9 year old Caldera > Linux server to CentOS 5.5. The old server is > so old, I am having trouble figuring out ways > to transfer the data directory I need to the > new server. No USB ports, severely broken IDE > ports, a RAID card I never heard of, a fried > 4 mm tape drive, yada, yada, yada. > > And to top it off, Caldera has a very reduced > set of commands. > > But tar does work on Caldera. What is the > syntax to save a tar ball on another computer? > (I hope Caldera implemented that -- they did > very little else.) Any support for NFS, either as a client or a server? If this is a server, it has to have some method of interaction with other systems. What is it serving? -- Bob Nichols AT comcast.net I am "RNichols42"
From: Todd on 1 Jun 2010 12:03 On 06/01/2010 03:58 AM, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > If none of those are available then the obvious solution would be to pull > the drive out of the old box and temporarily install it in the new box. 1) weird raid controller 2) grease vaporized at this point in the hard drives. Any physical change will ruin them. They can not be moved. It is nine years old. The thing is nine years only with a HUGE 10 GB hard drive! -T
From: Todd on 1 Jun 2010 12:05 On 06/01/2010 05:38 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > on the Caldera box: > > tar cvf - files-or-directories | ssh user(a)centosbox tar xvf - No ssh. Rats!
From: Todd on 1 Jun 2010 12:06
On 06/01/2010 06:10 AM, General Schvantzkoph wrote: > If you can do that then why not just do rsync, > > rsync -r -t -l -p src_dir dest_machine:/dest_path no rsync either > > The more I think about it the more I prefer the idea of just moving the > disk from the old box to the new box and doing the copy there. Disks can not be moved. Bearing grease vaporized at this point. |