Transfer home directory?

[Alan Dayley]

On Sat, September 16, 2006 6:39 pm, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> I bet unison would work well for this. :-)
>
> If you are transferring via a fat drive (USB thumb, etc.) try using tar or
> some other archive utility. This helps preserve permissions so all your
> JPEGS
> don't end up as executables.  Fat seems to want to make everthing
> executable.

In this case the plan is to transfer via network.  The user home directory
in question is 11GB!  Much of that is large cruft so I'll have to see if
it is worth it to transfer it all and trim there or trim before the
tranfer.

Using tar is already in my plan.  I once did such a thing with scp.  All
the file dates and permissions changed.  Not a big deal except for a few
situations where I could not longer tell which file was older than the
other.

Alan