Copying files over a network

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 22 December 2008, Rick wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Rick <rwbowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have an old mail/web/ftp server based on SME Server. I want to build a
> > new server and will need to copy all my email accounts from the old
> > server to the new server.
> >
> > The old server is OLD, and does not support USB. I'm sure there is a way
> > to copy files/directories over the network but don't know the proper
> > command(s). I'd like to do something like cp -R but between two servers.
> > Is this possible?
> >
> > It always helps to know what to tell Google to search for. I was looking
> > for copy, but I found rsync which seems to do the remote copy for me. The
> > other questions on distribution and email packages is still open for
> > comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> > ~Rick

Try rsync     or   scp  (part of ssh)

rsync is best for this I think.