[NBLUG/talk] Maintaining ownership of files

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:17:15AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
> Since it has been over two years since I moved /home from one machine to 
> another, I had forgotten that I made a tarball with the "-p" option.  
> Your response jarred my foggy memory.

Yeah, scp doesn't have all the control you want.

I suggest rsync.

like:
rsync -e ssh -a root at othersystem:/home/ /home

Or you can always do tricks with tar.
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