We recently purchased an IBM p630 with AIX5.1L. Our old server is a
Compaq with SCO Openserver 5.0.5. We want to do a simple file
transfer of our data directories from the SCO box to the AIX box.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the best possible way to transfer
these files without losing date and time stamp and file/directory
attributes?

Rich
rshockley@natful.com

(Rich) wrote:

> We recently purchased an IBM p630 with AIX5.1L. Our old server is
> a Compaq with SCO Openserver 5.0.5. We want to do a simple file
> transfer of our data directories from the SCO box to the AIX box.
> Does anyone have any suggestions for the best possible way to
> transfer these files without losing date and time stamp and
> file/directory attributes?

A couple options:

Tar the directories with the root id, ftp the tar ball to the new
box, and untar them also as root using the -p option. You could also
have tar write to and from a tape instead of using ftp.

NFS export the directories from the SCO server and NFS mount them on
the AIX server, then use cp -pR to copy the directories. There's
also cpio or dd, which might be faster, but I'm not sure whether you
can preserve ownerships, permissions and timestamps with those
utilities.

Set up and enable your .rhosts capability by putting the SCO IP
address in the AIX hosts file, and use rcp -pr

There are also the secure ssh utilities, including scp. However, I
can't help you with instructions for those.

"Al Sharka" <asharka@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:bdv1cc$11c7a7$1@ID-94151.news.dfncis.de...
> (Rich) wrote:
>
> > We recently purchased an IBM p630 with AIX5.1L. Our old server is
> > a Compaq with SCO Openserver 5.0.5. We want to do a simple file
> > transfer of our data directories from the SCO box to the AIX box.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions for the best possible way to
> > transfer these files without losing date and time stamp and
> > file/directory attributes?
>
> A couple options:
>
> Tar the directories with the root id, ftp the tar ball to the new
> box, and untar them also as root using the -p option. You could also
> have tar write to and from a tape instead of using ftp.
>
> NFS export the directories from the SCO server and NFS mount them on
> the AIX server, then use cp -pR to copy the directories. There's
> also cpio or dd, which might be faster, but I'm not sure whether you
> can preserve ownerships, permissions and timestamps with those
> utilities.
>
> Set up and enable your .rhosts capability by putting the SCO IP
> address in the AIX hosts file, and use rcp -pr
>
> There are also the secure ssh utilities, including scp. However, I
> can't help you with instructions for those.

Don't you get a "license violation" error if you try to connect to an
AIX box from Openserver?


--
RobH
The future's dim, the future's mono.

"RobH" wrote:
>
> Don't you get a "license violation" error if you try to connect to
> an AIX box from Openserver?

If you've upgraded to the latest version, I wouldn't be a bit
surprised.