Hi,
The replies came so fast I was taken aback. Appreciate the help.
Lots of you pointed out, mostly politely that I was not using the right tool
for the job. nfs and rcp are a huge nyet.
nfs uses nobody instead of root by default and thus my original problem.
Some people suggested using rcp with -p option, but that was what I had
tried and that doesnt work.
There were a number of other suggestions, the one I used is:
Charles Gagnon
# tar -cpf - /home | rsh target "( cd /home; tar -xvpf - )"
Though I wonder, since this is tar, would it break at the 2GB limit?
The other options are:
Charles Gagnon / Eric van de Meerakker / Moti Levy / Steve Elliot
# ufsdump 0f - /home | rsh target "( cd /home; ufsrestore xf - )"
Scott Rae
# find <dir>/ -print |cpio -oc |remsh <host 2> "cd <target dir>;cpio
-icdum"
Paul LaMadeleine / Joe Fletcher / Moti Levy
# (rsh remotenode tar -cvf - /home) | tar -xvf -
Tim Evans / Khalid Fuad
# man rdist
Bruce Zimmer / Russ Poffenberger
# cd /home
# tar -cf - . | compress |rsh othermachine "(cd /home;uncompress | tar -xf
- .)"
David Evans - 2 Solutions
(1)
# cd <mount point of the old machine /home>
# tar cpf - * | (cd /home; tar xpf - )
(2)
# cd <mount point>
# for i in *
> do
> su $i -c "cd $i; tar cpf - * | (cd /home/$i; tar xpf - )
> done
I guess thats it. And in the time that it took me to write this summary, my
file system has been copied. Thanks again Charles and all the rest.
Good Day.
Nabeel
-----Original Message-----
Hi,
I am trying to copy /home filesystem from one machine to another. First I
tried doing it using nfs mount, but for some reason, it didnt copy any files
which didnt have world read permission. So I tried doing an rcp, this
worked, but this one doesnt preserve all the ownerships. But I can correct
those ownerships manually. I wonder if this is normal? If so, does any one
have a script which would compare the ownership on the original hosts /home
and fix the ownerships on the copied /home?
Regards,
Nabeel
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