How do I copy a file with Colon (punctuation) name in it. When I type the following command to copy “file:name.txt” to a remote host called server1:
scp file:name.txt user@server1:/path
I get the following error:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname s: Name or service not known
How do I copy file with scp or rsync with a colon in it?
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I‘ve created the backup server using this tutorial under Redhat and Debian Linux systems. How do I restore files (such as /var/www/html) with rsnapshot backup tool? How do I restore MySQL database dumps with rsnapshot under UNIX or Linux operating systems?
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Q. How do I copy all the file including subdirectories from DVD disk mounted at /mnt/dvd to /home/tom at a shell prompt under CentOS Linux? A. You need to use cp command to copy SOURCE to DESTINATION or multiple SOURCE(s) to a DIRECTORY. Gnu cp command has -a option which copy directories recursively while preserving [...]
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Q. I would like to use duplicity package to automatically encrypting and storing remote backups in a bandwidth efficient manner in our backup server. The server is already configured and I’d like to install the same under RedHat Enterprise Linux. How do I install duplicity w/o compiling from source code? A. Duplicity is a piece [...]
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Q. How do I Move or migrate user accounts to from old Linux server a new Cent OS Linux server including mails? This new system a fresh installation. A. You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others. This is also useful [...]
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How can I import a MySQL dumpfile into my database? I’m using CentOS Linux 5 server. My old hosting provider gave me a data.sql file and I do have access to my Unix / Linux server via ssh. So How do I restore my data using command line over the ssh session?
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