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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using tar to move directories Post 302823323 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 19th of June 2013 06:31:01 AM
Old 06-19-2013
Okay, so a few questions:-
  • How did you create your tar file?
  • Did you specify a full path for the files or relative to where you were?
  • Which account are you running as at the time (output from id would be good)
  • How did you move the file?
    If it's a plain FTP, it may be better to compress the file and binary FTP it.
    Code:
    compress my.tar
ftp target
.....credentials bit.....
bin
put my.tar.Z

    On the target server you would then have to uncompress it, either with
    Code:
    uncompress my.tar
tar -xvf my.tar

    or
    Code:
    zcat my.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

  • On the target server, what account are you running as, again output from id would be useful.
    Who owns the files on the source server (user id number is the critical bit)
  • Can you list the permissions of the directories that these files will be extracted to with ls -ld dir

The more clues you can give us, the better.



Thanks, in advance,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
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