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Old 09-02-2014
Copying Directories from one server to another
Hi,
I have a requirement where I have to connect to another server and copy directories from one server to another

Directories on the Source server look like below (YYYY-MM-DD- 1 to 23)
Code:
drwxr-xr-x   2 test_user  dmfmart     422 Sep  1 23:45 2014-09-01-18
drwxr-xr-x   2 test_user  dmfmart     422 Sep  1 23:46 2014-09-01-19
drwxr-xr-x   2 test_user  dmfmart     422 Sep  1 23:47 2014-09-01-20

I have to connect to the destination server and create a directory in YYYY-MM-DD format and copy all directories from source server (YYYY-MM-DD- 1 to 23) to the destinaton server into the YYYY-MM-DD folder which was just created.

I have tried the below and see these errors:
Code:
put *
Couldn't read from "2014-09-01-18": Is a directory

get -r *
Invalid flag -r

lmkdir

Not throwing any error but not creating a new directory on the remote server as well.

Thanks in Advance!
Last edited by vbe; 09-02-2014 at 05:19 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 09-02-2014
put is not a unix command (shell ) command and get for me is a SCCS command so will not work...
Unless you are talkings of FTP (which you have not mentionned! ) and in which case both commands are for ONE file, for multiple you have mput,mget commands for ftp, read again the man pages of ftp.
Why arent you using sftp, or scp?
# 3  
Old 09-02-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
read again the man pages of ftp.
Exactly!

Quote:
Originally Posted by vbe
Why arent you using sftp, or scp?
or use tar to stuff the whole tree to a single file, transfer that and untar it on the other side. This will preserve all the user information, filemodes, etc.. and might be, depending on your exact requirements (of which you gave us only a cursory impression) less effort.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
# 4  
Old 09-03-2014
If your folder contains subfolders and more importantly symlinks you should use rsync

Code:
rsync -aruv localfolder/ user@server:destination/

 
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