Re: [cobalt-users] .tar - Transferring Sites From One Cobalt to Another

["Brian N. Smith" <support@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "COMPUTICA" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 1:11 AM
Subject: [cobalt-users] .tar - Transferring Sites From One Cobalt to Another


> On the machine where the site resides now, I would use the following
> to TAR the file up.
>
>        tar -cpvzf filename.tar.gz web users
>
>        This would tar up the /web and the /users folders.
>
> This still works...
>
> On the target machine, I would use the following to UNTAR the file:
>
>        tar -xpvzf filename.tar.gz
>
> This doesn't work anymore...  :(
>
> On the target machine, when I run that command line, logged in as
> root, I get the following error messages:
>
>       gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>       tar: Child returned status 1
>       tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

It could be that you did NOT gunzip it.

try:

tar xfvp filename.tar.gz

Good Night/Morning.

Brian N. Smith
NuOnce Networks
www.nuonce.net