There are man pages on rsync which automates this sort of thing, cp and cpio -p. If the volume is small, and no versioning/save newest is desired, you can just cp:
One issue is how to handle links and symbolic links -- some tools can move the links, other make copies of the target files or subtrees. Another idea is to zip each user's data over to there. Not only is there less space used, less data flows over the net and there is less delay creating and traversing remote directories. Windows can traverse the zip like a dir., lately!
Hi,
I have a folder with diff subfolders in my Unix box and now I want to ftp all the floders into my Windows machine. Is there any easy way to do that. When I use the "mget " cmd and try to FTP the files, it throws an error that the sub folder name does not exist.
Can you someone help in... (3 Replies)
Sir
From a unix machine some folders and their folders have to be copied to windows XP PC. Please help me with a batch file or a shell script. I am new to the the shell and batch files. Thanks in anticipation.
sastry (3 Replies)
i have users home directories in /home
all the users have some files starting with character e
and i want to copy all these files in a folder in my (root) home
using a script
i tried the script
for i in m5
do
cd m5
cp e1* /home/pc/exam
cd ..
done
but get these... (3 Replies)
I have files existing with same names in the folders with date as display below
c:\2010-09-10 <==== folder
arr1.jpg
arr2.jpg
arr3.jpg
arr4.jpg
c:\2010-09-09 <==== folder
arr1.jpg
arr2.jpg
c:\2010-09-08 <==== folder
arr2.jpg
arr3.jpg
arr4.jpg
... (5 Replies)
Share ServerA
==== The Samba server is running on Samba version 3.0.22 based HP CIFS Server A.02.03.04
/opt/cifsclient/sbin/cifsclientd version: HP CIFS Client - Version A.02.02.02 smb file:
My previous casw was thew user wasn't able to write to the share from Windows... (1 Reply)
I know how to mount my share via /etc/fstab automatically when the system boots but since I do not have root permission to access the /etc/fstab nor do I think that the system admin wants me to add an entry in /etc/fstab all together. So what file could I add my mount entry in?
mount -t cifs... (8 Replies)
I have an AIX box that mounts a Windows share across subnets. When I try to copy a 100 MB file to it, it copies around 2 MB/s. If I copy to another Windows share on the same subnet it copies around 12 MB/s. All I have is gigabit networks so I would expect it to go well over 12 MB/s, which is the... (8 Replies)
hi all
I want a script that will use ftp to copy folder and sub folders from source server to current server. if i use -r switch then it just copies folders for 5 level. (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I created a nfs share in the server(Solaris 10) with the following command and also updated the dfstab file
share -F nfs -o rw=server_name2,anon=0 /to_share
And then in the client(solaris 10) added the following command to mount the share
mount -F nfs server_name1:/to_share... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I need to find a solution for backing up/transferring BACKUP (dump file) from AIX (specifically) to Windows 2012 Hidden Share.
The vendor says that he cannot do a copy from his system to hidden share because it requires a password...
Personally, I think that there should be a solution... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: pob579
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symlinks
SYMLINKS(1) General Commands Manual SYMLINKS(1)NAME
symlinks - symbolic link maintenance utility
SYNOPSIS
symlinks [ -cdorstv ] dirlist
DESCRIPTION
symlinks is a useful utility for maintainers of FTP sites, CDROMs, and Linux software distributions. It scans directories for symbolic
links and lists them on stdout, often revealing flaws in the filesystem tree.
Each link is output with a classification of relative, absolute, dangling, messy, lengthy, or other_fs.
relative links are those expressed as paths relative to the directory in which the links reside, usually independent of the mount point of
the filesystem.
absolute links are those given as an absolute path from the root directory as indicated by a leading slash (/).
dangling links are those for which the target of the link does not currently exist. This commonly occurs for absolute links when a
filesystem is mounted at other than its customary mount point (such as when the normal root filesystem is mounted at /mnt after booting
from alternative media).
messy links are links which contain unnecessary slashes or dots in the path. These are cleaned up as well when -c is specified.
lengthy links are links which use "../" more than necessary in the path (eg. /bin/vi -> ../bin/vim) These are only detected when -s is
specified, and are only cleaned up when -c is also specified.
other_fs are those links whose target currently resides on a different filesystem from where symlinks was run (most useful with -r ).
OPTIONS -c convert absolute links (within the same filesystem) to relative links. This permits links to maintain their validity regardless of
the mount point used for the filesystem -- a desirable setup in most cases. This option also causes any messy links to be cleaned
up, and, if -s was also specified, then lengthy links are also shortened. Links affected by -c are prefixed with changed in the
output.
-d causes dangling links to be removed.
-o fix links on other filesystems encountered while recursing. Normally, other filesystems encountered are not modified by symlinks.
-r recursively operate on subdirectories within the same filesystem.
-s causes lengthy links to be detected.
-t is used to test for what symlinks would do if -c were specified, but without really changing anything.
-v show all symbolic links. By default, relative links are not shown unless -v is specified.
BUGS
symlinks does not recurse or change links across filesystems.
AUTHOR
symlinks has been written by Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>, the original developer and maintainer of the IDE Performance Package for linux,
the Linux IDE Driver subsystem, hdparm, and a current day libata hacker.
SEE ALSO symlink(2)Version 1.4 October 2008 SYMLINKS(1)