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hi guys
im beginner in unix and have many problem with this.
i have one old machine that Sco unix OpenServer 5.0.7 installed on it.
i wana backup from all partition of hard disk and restore it on another unix machine. how can i do that ?
thing like hard to hard for windows !!!
i only know how to login in root no more. plz help me
its very important for me

The first question is do you have a backup device, for example a tape drive? Or are you proposing to transfer the backup directly over the network?

You will probably experience driver issues because the new hardware will not be the same as the old (which will take some sorting out). Anyway, the main thing is to get a good backup if you're nervous about losing data. I'd take two backups just to be sure.

I've always found that on SCO Unix cpio is the utility to use rather than tar if you want to restore the entire system and then boot from it. (Tar doesn't backup device nodes (/dev/<whatever>) properly on some SCO versions.)

It might help if we knew what hardware you have in the old machine and what hardware is in the new machine and if the new machine already has UNIX installed.

hi guys and thanks for ur answer
i have one too old machine i think its i386 maybe.
in fact i have one program installed on this machine that i wana copy it to another machine.
my new machine runing on vmware and correct work.
in fact i wana move that program and data and user file from that machine to this machine.
note: i installed sco openserver5.0.7 on vmware machine and it work perfect.
thank you

Hi farzad
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thank you for ur hrlp

i access boot and root, and have floppy drive instaleed on it
and enable network adapter Successful.
what command may i use ?

Since you only want to copy specific files, you can use 'tar' to copy to whatever removable device you have common to both systems. The following command will make multiple diskette archives if necessary. The device names are listed in /etc/default/tar.

Code:

tar ctvf device_name list_of_files_to_copy

and 
tar xvf device_name
to restore

If you have network cards in both machines, you could use ftp. The ftp server starts automatically in multi user mode.