>> 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. That worked great. Thanks.