On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:22:27PM -0700, ann kok wrote: > can you tell me what is the exactly command? > > machineA# ssh root at nachineB:tar cvf / ; tar xvf * machineA# cd $WHERE-MACHINE-B-FILES-WILL-LIVE machineA# ssh root at machineB "cd / ; tar cfp - . " | tar xfp - Beware of following network mounted filesystems or otherwise recursing. Note that $WHERE-MACHINE-B-FILES-WILL-LIVE on machineA cannot be / since it will likely interfere with the currently running OS. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave at xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070926/c0143b56/attachment-0005.sig>