[Sysadmin] old leo/meo server

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 06:37:24AM +0100, William Anderson wrote:
> Ron Dorman wrote:
> > Dean Mah wrote:
> >
> > > > Dean, let me know when you have a little time, if we can get ssh to
> > > > run again, I can copy things to my dev machine for attaching to
> > > > emails to people that don't have a machine to receive scp or ftp.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > ssh on what?  If the machine isn't accessible from the outside....
> > >
> > on the old leo/meo box.  it is on a private local area net in my office.
> >  the other three machines are Win2K desktops.  if ssh would run on
> > leo/meo, i could transfer any needed files to a desktop (tar'd or not),
> > attach to an email and send.
> 
> ssh does run on meo, or at least it did before it was switched off.
> 
> probably the easiest thing to do is delete the browser archive (which is
> still on there iirc), and then run bash as root and do the following:
> 
> cd /home ; for i in * ; do tar --atime-preserve -cvzf $i.tar.gz $i ; done
> 
> this should create a tarball of each individual home directory, ready for
> picking up and sending to anyone who requests it.  Unix users should have no
> problem unpacking a gzipp'd tarball, Winzip can handle them too.
> 
> caveat: untested ;)

Trust me, there's likely way too much data even with the browser
archive deleted.  As well, we need the MySQL databases dumped.

Dean