![]() ![]() You can write connect the two tars by a pipe and you don't need a temporary file, nor the disk space! To specify stdin or stdout specify the file name - (hyphen). "That temporary file might be huge! Bigger than the free space that I have!" Don't worry. The trick is to make a tar file of the files, copy the file to the new server, then extract the tar file with -p to preserve the file permissions. Sometimes you find yourself on a system without rsync. ![]() Before rsync existed here's a trick that is worth knowing. ![]()
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