On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM +1100, John Clarke wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:25:49PM +1100, Peter Vogel wrote: > > > I used scp -pr but all the files end up being owned by "root". > > > > I thought -p will preserve everything. But the man page on my RH8 > > installation does not say it does. Is this a version problem? > > -p Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from > the original file. > > There's nothing there about preserving user and group. If you want to > do that, try rsync (use -a). Even then, that only root (on the > destination host) can fully preserve user and group information because > ordinary users don't have privilege to set user to anyone else or group > to any group of which they're not a member.
I agree about trying rsync. It's the best in many ways. You can also use tar. AFAIK you can choose (in tar at least) to preserve names instead of uids/gids, which might work better if the uids/gids aren't synchronised between the machines. Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
