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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 6.x => Topic started by: yehaah on November 01, 2006, 08:26:21 AM

Title: Can't copy files
Post by: yehaah on November 01, 2006, 08:26:21 AM

I want to move one of my homepages to another server.

Instead of making a complete backup to desktop and then picking out the few MB og several GB, I would like to copy the contents of a single "html" folder in a ibay.

I started by making a copy by ftp, but I didn't have the rights I needed to copy image files.

Then I logged on as root, and copied the files from "html" to my "home" with nc. But alass I stille cant upload some of the files from my homedrive to my new server, because of rights issues.

What do I do, so that I can copy theses files with out any problems?????

Title: Can't copy files
Post by: william_syd on November 01, 2006, 08:50:20 AM

Check out secure copy (scp)

man scp

Works a treat for machine to machine copies.

Title: Re: Can't copy files
Post by: raem on November 01, 2006, 09:19:57 AM

yehaah

> I logged on as root, and copied the files from "html" to my "home" with nc.

You probably "gave" those files root ownership when you copied them.
cd /home/e-smith/files/users/username/home
ls -al
review the current ownerships

chown username:username *
ls -al
to review again

Then copy them to wherever you want.