Re: [cobalt-users] Is there a way to copy and move the entire contents of the Harddrive

[Colin Smith <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, LightSpeedServers.Net wrote:

> As you have already seen in my previous posts, I will need to change servers
> soon.  I spent a lot of time adding programs, changing things, and modifying
> things on the RAQ4.  I almost have the RAQ4 to the point I want it and now I
> have to move!!

Yeah, this is easy. tar -czvf filename /

> Is there a way to copy the complete hard drive into a .tar or some other
> method and just move everything onto the new server?  I know I can migrate,
> but I want to take everything, every program I installed, every modification
> to the config, everything!!  I do not have access to the server so this
> makes things difficult!!

You just have to be very careful when untarring the file in case you
overwrite the destination servers configuration.

regards,
Colin Smith