Re: [expert] copying files with scp

[Vincent Danen]

On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 09:18 PM, PlugHead wrote:

If I'm reading the man page correctly, the -p option preserves the modes of
the files (e.g. rwx), not the owner. Keeping the owners could be a bit
problematic, since the owner id on one system is probably different from the
owner id on another system...

Use rsync over ssh. It'll preserve ownership of the files as well as permissions and everything else you want.

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