OT: cloning (copying) a HD over a network...

Dale Sykora dalen at czexan.net
Sat Apr 9 08:51:42 UTC 2005


Kim Lux wrote:
> The hard drive is full on our server.  I can ssh into it from my
> workstation.  I've got a formatted drive mounted on my workstation ready
> to receive the server files.
> 
> How do I easily copy the server files to the workstation drive over our
> network ?  Keep in mind that I need to preserve the file ownership,
> permissions and dates.
> 
> If I had the new hard drive mounted on the server, I would use:
> 
> cp -aR /olddrive /newdrive >> logfile
> 
> I've tried using scp, but I cannot force it to preserve the file
> attributes.
> 
> I've tried using sftp, but I don't think it is recursive and I can't
> force it to preserve attributes.
> 
> I'm trying to use tar, but I can't figure out how to make it work across
> a network.  FWIW, I have sshd enabled on the server, but not on the
> workstation.  I don't have nfs enabled on the server.  Can I do this
> without enabling it ? 
> 
> Any hints would be appreciated. 
Kim,
	I would use rsync.  From the workstation something like the following 
should work.

rsync -Pav --rsh=ssh root at your_server:/from_dir/ /to_dir/

replace user, server, from&to paths as appropriate

Thanks,

Dale




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