Directory replication in New server

Question

Scenario is to replicate all the directories,sub-directories,files,symbolic links present in Linux development Server to Linux QA Server.

Lot of unix users also to be created.

Consider an unix user - edwprod , there are lot of sub-directories and soft link present inside this folder /home/edwprod/.

-rwxrwxrwx 1 edwprod  edwprod     0 Jan 25 13:23 ksh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 edwprod  edwprod    32 Jan 30 06:30 output -> /apps/application_scripts/output
lrwxrwxrwx 1 edwprod  edwprod    30 Jan 30 07:02 wp37 -> /apps/application_scripts/wp37
lrwxrwxrwx 1 edwprod  edwprod    32 Jan 31 05:57 in_dir -> /apps/application_scripts/in_dir
lrwxrwxrwx 1 edwprod  edwprod    30 Jan 31 10:57 SVEN -> /apps/application_scripts/SVEN
drwxrwxrwx 6 edwprod  edwprod  1024 Feb  1 08:45 bin

This is how the directory looks like. All the directories reside inside folder /apps/application_scripts/.

Both the directory tree should be replicated in Linux QA Server without affecting the symbolic links. Let me know the best possible way to do it?

Answer 1

rsync -e ssh -aHS $SOURCEDIR/ $TARGET:$TARGETDIR/

Use useradd with the original data (uid, gid, encrypted pw, ...) to recreate the user on the target system.