best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

Frank Shute frank at esperance-linux.co.uk
Wed Aug 2 18:19:05 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:52:09PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
>
> I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server
> to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging
> from one to the other via the windows box.
> 
> This might seem like a silly question, but what is the way to copy
> -directly- from one fbsd box to another?

I use a combination of scp and rsync. scp for odd files and rsync for
directories.

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 Frank 


echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g'

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