Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Friday 2005-04-15 at 13:07 -0500, Henry Tang wrote:

> I am moving files from one server to another and i need to keep the date and
> time created and ownership ..
> scp -p can keep time but scp will not keep ownership..  I found one way is tar
> and transfer.. is that the only way?

Running as root, ftp, perhaps... but it is not secure, of course.

rsync seems to do it; from its man page:

              rsync -avz foo:src/bar /data/tmp

       This would recursively transfer all files from the  direc­
       tory  src/bar  on  the  machine foo into the /data/tmp/bar
       directory on the local machine. The files are  transferred
       in  "archive"  mode,  which  ensures  that symbolic links,
       devices, attributes,  permissions,  ownerships,  etc.  are
       preserved in the transfer.  Additionally, compression will
       be used to reduce the size of data portions of the  trans­
       fer.

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Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson