28 Jul
2007
28 Jul
'07
9:35 a.m.
simon wrote:
Dear All,
i need to copy mail files from my REDHAT Linux old server to my CENTOS new server
these files in mbox formay in/var/mail directory
i need to preserve permissions as well the the modification date n time
i tried using scp it works fine but i can the file permissions r not preserved but the date n time is preserved
use tar, tar them up into one big file, then scp that file across, then untar them.
Cheers,
Michael