Re: Transferring directory structure to Windows

Hi all,

I use SCP to copy files from my AIX machines. It offers the "preserve"
attribute as well as recursively copying the whole entire directory
structure as it is laid out on the AIX machine. For example:

MKDIR C:\KREMBLAS
CD C:\KREMBLAS
scp -p -r kremblas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:.ssh .

where:

-p preserve attributes
-r recursively copy
kremblas user name
@aixmachine.domainname.com
: very IMPORTANT -- don't forget this as it
tells SCP a directory name or file name is to follow (I think)
.ssh the directory called .ssh in my HOME
directory on "aixmachine". You can use a FULL pathname as well
. Copy file to current LOCAL directory on
Windows machine.

I installed PuTTY to get the SCP package. It's very easy to install and
it's free and reliable. You can get the latest version of PuTTY here:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Select the
'putty.zip' file for Windows XX.


However, this whole process is dependent on you having SSH installed on the
AIX machine and that you've already gone through the SSH config process on
the AIX machine and you already have your '.ssh' directory created in your
HOME directory on the AIX machine. If you need more instructions, please
advise.

Another benefit of using SCP is because it's more secure than FTP and you
don't have to worry about what Simon is thinking of doing (which I used to
do until I found SCP).

I hope this helps.


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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jean-Marc Monnez
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 09:05
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Transferring directory structure to Windows


How about (free on AIX) curl, ncftpput, or expect ? I never tried, but
AFAIK they could help.
(NB : I have my own development to "put" directory tree with ftp, but it
is context specific.)
Regards.
-- JMM

-----------------------------
Jean-Marc MONNEZ
MSA / AGORA / ATD
monnez.jean-marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----------------------------

Green, Simon (EDS) a écrit :
I'm not able to install any software on the Windows server, so I don't
think that'll help me.

I *think* that tar'ing them up and ftping that, then extracting with
WinZip will work, but it's a bit clumsy and mean I need twice as much
disk space.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Baghele, Bipin
Sent: 03 November 2006 16:16
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Transferring directory structure to Windows


Try winscp (http://winscp.net/eng/index.php)

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Green, Simon (EDS)
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:47 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Transferring directory structure to Windows

We're migrating a lot of files from an AIX 4.3.3 server to a Windows
server. On the AIX box, each file will be in its own directory, all of
which are subdirectories of one main directory.

Now, an ftp "mget *" would get all of the files, but it won't preserve
the directory structure. Since some of the files may have duplicate
names this
won't do. Is there any way I can copy an entire directory structure
with
readily available tools? (I don't have time to obtain anything new.)
best
thing I can come up with so far is to tar them up and ftp that to the
Windows box, then use WinZip to extract the data, although I'm not sure
what
that'll do to the directory structure. Or I could install a zip utility
from the AIX Toolbox: not sure if there's any advantage to that.

There's quite a lot of data involved, and many thousands of files.

Any suggestions appreciated.


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