Hi. I'm moving a fairly large web site with lots of directories and subdirectories from one (UNIX/Apache) server to another. So I want to zip the whole lot up on the old server, and unzip it on the new. I _think_ that the correct commands to use are tar and gunzip respectively, but I'm not sure. So what I'm seeking is a no-frills guide to achieving what I want to achieve. Is there any way to preserve file chmod/chown file and directory permissions as part of the move?

Thanks very much.

You say you want to move a large amount of files from machine A to machine B;
Share the directory on machine A that has the files.
share -F nfs -o rw /opt/apache/htdocs

Mount the shared directory on machine B.
mount machinea:/opt/apache/htdocs /mnt

Start copying.
cd /mnt
tar cvfp - * | (cd /opt/apache/htdocs; tar xf -)
Replace the /opt/apache/htdocs witht
the location you want the files to go to on machine B.

Hope this helps