On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Somen Chanda wrote:

SC> I am migrating from Solaris to Linux. I was successful with mmerecov and now
SC> I need to copy over  the indexes from the old backup server.
SC> 
SC> I was wondering what would be the most efficient way of copying the indexes
SC> from one server to other?
SC> 
SC> The indexes dir size is about 50 GB.
SC> 
SC> I tried NFS mount, it is not very fast. Besides Legato do not recommend
SC> copying of indexes they prefer tar.
SC> I thought of tar but it needs that much space to put the archive on and then
SC> extract it.
SC> 
SC> Any help would be appreciated.

One way would be to use tar, without an intermediate file.

Example:

tar cf - /nsr/index | rsh root@newserver "(cd / ; tar xvf -)"

SSH can also be used, but it is way slower than rsh, at least if you don't 
turn off encryption/compression.

//Oscar

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