transfer data? solaris to linux...

[hasrin]

Hi,
How to copy/transfer current data from existing server running solaris 7 to a new server running redhat linux? .. then .. my plan is to switch it over when everything is complete without lots of downtime... i've got both machine setup with NFS & NIS. Any help? maybe steps by steps .... thanks a lot...

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

If you don't want to perform a backup, you can transfert data between machines using a pipe with something like this on the destination server:

rsh <SOURCE_SERVER> &quot;cd <SOURCE_DIR>; tar cf - . | compress -c&quot; | (cd <DESTINATION_DIR>; compress -cd | tar xf -)

I haven't tried this with huge amount of data as I'm not really sure that a pipe over network is really performant...