I’ve got to empty 5 Openstep Animo machines and keep one running because Animo 1.7 files are incompatible with Animo 4.1.
There isn’t space on the 1.7 machine we’re keeping so I want to copy the files to the new w2k Animo 4.1 machine, however UNIX and w2K don’t talk much and data would be lost if I simply copied the files over. The HD’s are too full to compress to .tar format.
What can I do? I can’t delete the old jobs, most of the pays-the-rent work is repeats and re-uses so I have to have access to those 1.7 files.
Also: Anyone know ANYTHING about Exabyte on OpenStep?
So the core problem is copying a bunch of files from a unix box to an win2k box without making a tar file on the unix box because there’s insufficient space. Right?
Let’s see…
A lot of ftp clients will recurse directories and recreate that just fine on the other server. Just watch that you’re getting ascii transfer where you want it and binary transfer where you want it.
There’s rcp and scp clients available for NT, you could rcp the files from unix to NT with the recurse flag. (rcp -r unixsvr:/path/dir c:\destdir)
do you have enough space on your unix server to create a compressed tar file? Can you do it in pieces? some tar commands have compress built into the option set while other’s you can do via pipe commands:
tar -cf - /srcdir | compress -c >srcdir.tar.Z
gzip can be used in place of compress and will usually make a smaller file. This file could then be ftp from the unix server to the NT server and winzip will open them up.
I’ll look into FTP - Thing is, I know NeXT to nothing about OpenStep or UNIX - but I’m in-house and the IT guy is really expensive to get in. Can I post more questions here for you?
Feel free to post any questions you have. I’ve been doing Unix for about 12 years now and I used to administer a small NeXT cluster. I was glad to see it go - Unix meets Apple - an evil combination…
Although it’s overkill for a one time thing, if you need to frequently share files between windows and unix, get samba.
Putty is a freeware ssh/scp client that works on windows 2000 and installing openssh on a unix machine isn’t difficult. Then you could easily copy files between those machines.
