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Sindi Keesan wrote:

Set up a network (ethernet, parallel, serial) and use Steven's built-inBL 
scripts send and receive.  To copy entire file systems, first boot with 
floppy BL, mount the hard drive, and copy the contents.  If you boot with 
what you are copying, you will end up copying temporary stuff from /proc 
which you don't need to do.

You can tar -zcvf filesystem.tgz * if you want to send just one big file, 
then after it arrives tar -zxvf tilesystem.tgz (make sure you are in the 
partition you want the files to end up in), but in my experience tarring 
(compressing and archiving) takes much more time than sending single 
files.  At least on slower computers.   You can tar -cvf to send one large 
file that is not first compressed.

 On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org 
wrote:

> A question related to my other one about ssh:
> What are the full tar commands that i can use
> to send and receive files between two separate
> accounts which i have on different machines?
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> I actually did this last week at an Installfest,
> with a lot of help from a guru who showed me how,
> and it worked perfectly. I copied an entire
> rootfs from one machine to an empty partition
> on another.
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> But it happened so fast that i don't remember
> exactly how it was done. It involved a command
> which i think went like this:
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> tar -C directory -cf - . | tar -C directory -xf -
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> but i'm not sure if that was exactly what i did,
> and the biggest thing i forgot is exactly what
> i had to put in what i'm calling 'directory' here.
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> IIRC, the command is to be run from the machine
> which is receiving the files, correct?
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> And therefore the "directory" on the left side
> of the pipe also requires the "username@hostname"
> before the directory name, correct?
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> If any of this is wrong, can someone please
> type the command exactly as it needs to be done?
> Thanks.
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