On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Matt <matt.mailinglists at gmail.com> 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. Yes, with new machines typically having many orders of magnitudes more storage than old ones it is easier to keep a backup of old stuff online than to sort through it. If both machines are still running, on the old one, cd to /, then rsync -av . new_machine:/path/to/save perhaps using --exclude to avoid the /proc and /sys directories. Rsync will create the last directory in the target path if it doesn't exist, but only the last one. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com