hi , the seniro here simply is to extract all the files that we had in Prod Server and put them in the new Dev box that we just created. so my admin zipped all the files and sent them to me to untar them in the Dev Box.we are using SO 5.6. i so the question here is:what command should i use?tar -xvpf folder.tar or tar -xvzf folder.tar whould that be enough to extract all the branches and create them at the proper place just like they are in the Prod Server?thanks in advance
to start with (as a generic answer), one needs to tar with 'cvpf' and untar with 'xvpf' .. 'v' is optional, though.now - you cannot simply tar and untar branches. It will work with workareas only, and still, one has to have workearas pre-created, before you attempt to untar.
And you have to transfer the EA's on any files that have them, as a separate process (record them on the source server, re-apply them on the target-server)
or new OpenDeploy can do this process altogether
