Joe Burns made comment on Tue Jul 22 12:58:17 2003 :
> I am in the process of converting a customer from an old SCO 5.0.5 server
> (they have been running this hardware for about 10 years) to a new server
> running SCO 5.0.6. I have the new SCO Enterprise version installed and can
> do a "rlogin" across the network to the other system. Now I need to copy
> the entire contents, with the same file ownerships, groups, etc intact, from
> the old system to the new system. I can't remember how to do that. I
> believe that I used to use UUCP between servers when I would dial-up from
> one city to the other (about 10 years ago), but I never had to do this
> process across an Ethernet connection. Would I use "uucp" or "rcp" or
> something else? What is the syntax of the command. Let's say, for the
> purposes of this example, that the names of the systems are "oldsystem" and
> "newsystem" and the IP addresses are 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2
> respectively.
>

One option that has not been mentioned yet:

OldSystem> tar cvf /tmp/blah /path/to/directory/to/copy
OldSystem> gzip /tmp/blah

Now use rcp, ftp, floppy, tape etc. to copy /tmp/blah.gz to NewSystem

NewSystem> gzip -d /tmp/blah.gz
NewSystem> tar xvf /tmp/blah

Yes you could use a couple of pipelines to reduce the number of
commands and temp files - but it is easy to follow this way :-)

Tom

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