How to Copy Folder from one solaris machine to another?

UNIX Solaris
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Hi All,

Can any body help for below query......

How to Copy Folder from one solaris machine to another?

Thanks,

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One method you could do is to compress the folder and transfer. Then, uncompress.
tar cvf testdir.tar /tmp/tesdir
scp testdir.tar user@dest_hostname:/somedir/

then login to dest_hostname, cd to /somedir and perform
tar xvf testdir.tar

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hi,
what is the command for know the servername ?
help me.
thank :eek:you

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do you mean hostname?

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you have to login to that server and type "hostname"
or from ur current system, simply do a "nslookup <IP of that server>":stuck_out_tongue:

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Hi,

You can use the commande "rcp" :

root# rcp -p <server>:/tmp/sourcedirectory /tmp/targetdirectory

<server> : is name of your machine, and the name of the machine should be declared on /etc/hosts.

the path: /tmp/.... is just an example

Thx.

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ftp or scp could also do it.

a million ways to do the same thing. hehehe :b:

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@vaibhavvd

Thats pretty simple, use scp its secure...Suppose xxx.xxx.xxx.xx and yyy.yyy.yy.y are the IP's of the servers and you want to copy from x to y server, then the format is

Login to yyy.yyy.yy.y

scp username@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:/Desktop/filename /Documents

scp -R username@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:/directory_name /Documents

Now file will be copied to /Documents in y server. If it is folder as u asked then use -r with scp, or may be -R, am not sure if its upper case or lower case. It copies the recursively. To copy a directory or folder -r ot -R option shld be used with scp. Try to copy as root user coz u may encounter permission issues when a normal user tries to copy files to desktop or / etc etc...Enjoy your copying :b::smiley:

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just note that scp will encrypt packets. this takes longer. small transfers will not see much of a different but larger ones... most likely.