Re: USB on Debian Potato?

Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@xxxxxxx> wrote:
One of the machines has to be running an FTP server. Since it's not
that common to need one of those, you may not have one installed. It's
probable that you have sshd running on at least one machine, though.
With sshd, you can use scp, or rsync, or sftp, or any of a few GUI
frontends to those things. (Try typing sftp://user@host/ into a
Konqueror window, substituting a valid hostname and a valid username.)

If the OP wants to backup hard links, devices files and other tricky things
like that I'd be tempted to do something like this from the old machine:

tar cf - / | ssh userid@newmachine "cd /backup; tar xf -"

In other words, on the old machine start tarring up the filesystem starting
at / Then open an SSH session to the new machine, and pipe the tarfile thus
created over to it. Change to directory /backup and untar the stream
received from the pipe over SSH.

This just needs an SSH client and tar on the old machine, and needs no disc
space there.

You should be able to do something similar with cpio - just use '-' as input
or output filenames.

If there are lots of files you can tweak it by making tar send compressed
files, having SSH do the compression ( -C ), or choosing a faster cipher
( -c blowfish ). It depends on the relative speed of CPUs against network.

Theo
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