07-17-2018
How Do I FTP System Files to Different Server?
Hello,
I have a legacy system that is running on SCO OpenServer 5.0.6, and the hardware is becoming a little sketchy. I replaced the hard drive about a year ago, and was able to come back from a tape backup of my entire system. I have been successful with building a VM with VMware Workstation, and I have a clean install of 5.0.6 with 5.0.6a supplements, and I have it operational with LAN access here in our office. I can connect via FTP from the "working" server to the new VM server successfully!
I would like to copy all of the necessary files from the "working" server to the new VM server, so I can avoid having to try an get my ancient tape drive somehow connected and recognized by the new VM server. Last year when I rebuilt to new hard drive, someone on this forum suggested that I restore everything from my tape backup except the /etc/conf directory, and this seemed to get the job done but caused a few error messages to pop up on reboots, etc. I don't mind because the system works for what we need, which is basically to look up historical data stored in the legacy system.
I am relatively unskilled, but I know a little bit about ftp, cp, tar, etc. What would be the best and easiest way to copy all of the necessary system files from my "working" server to the new VM server via ftp? Complete commands would help a lot, if possible, or if there is a better strategy I am open to anything.
Thanks,
Rob
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
tcopy
tcopy(1) User Commands tcopy(1)
NAME
tcopy - copy a magnetic tape
SYNOPSIS
tcopy source [destination]
DESCRIPTION
The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.
When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a des-
tination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.
The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,
example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)
NOTES
tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests.
SunOS 5.11 10 Mar 2000 tcopy(1)