[CentOS] Updating/Backing Up Server

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:50:00 -0600
Matt wrote:

> I am slowly migrating the data etc off an old CentOS32 4.x server to a
> new CentOS64 5.x server.  The old server only has 15Gbyte of its hard
> drive in use.  Is there an easy/safe way to copy the entire contents
> of old server root directory to a directory on the new server for
> future reference?  Most of the data is various test files, perl
> scripts, etc. scattered all over.

tar?

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