copy folder to remote server

[Steven W. Orr]

On Monday, Jul 21st 2008 at 10:07 -0000, quoth Mad Unix:

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=>I want to copy all the following files/folder/subfolders under
=>/usr/local/apache/htdocs to a remote server within this directory
=>/var/www/html/
=>Am I correct with this command, or far away offff
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=>tar zcvf -  /usr/local/apache/htdocs | ssh root at 1.2.3.4 "cat >
=>/var/www/html/htdocs.tar.gz"

That won't work because all you'd end up with is a transfer of the tar.gz
file. It will not have been unpacked. You probably intend something like


cd /usr/local/apache
tar -zcvf htdocs | ssh root at 1.2.3.4 "cd /var/www/html; tar -zxf -"

Of course, scp -r will probably also work too. ;-)

And for the people who do it right in the first place...

find htdocs -print | cpio -o | \
ssh root at 1.2.3.4 'cd /var/www/html; cpio -idvum'


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