Hopefully an easy solution!!

[bcre3306]

I need to backup(tar) all the .profiles and restore them to the exact same location on another box. Is there an easy way of doing this? I have about 300 that have to be moved over.
Thanks

 

[BobMCT]

Try using "backup" instead like this:

as the root user key:

find / -name ".profile" -print | backup -ivqf/dev/???

where ??? is the device to back them up to (usually tape or diskette).

Then, on the "other" machines, key:

restore -xvqf /dev/???

and the backed up files will go to the exact same place on the new machine.

Good luck.

Bob

 

[swood]

If you want to use tar, you could try the following:

tar cvf tarfile.tar `find /home -name .profile -print`

 

[aixboss]

I use this method and it works well.

Install the rsync utility from the AIX Toolkit CD, on both machines.

Once done run a command similar to this from the machine you want to copy to:

rsync -ruz root@other_macine:/remote/dir/ /local/dir

If you are using ssh, then use the command as follows:

rsync -ruz -e ssh root@other_macine:/remote/dir/ /local/dir

Finally, if you want to cron this then do a public/private key exchange if using ssh or just set up .rhosts on both sides.