On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:04, Troy Engel wrote:
> > good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was
> > the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to
> > use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box?
>
> The -p preserves the date/time and modes, but not the actual UID/GID.
> Try using rsync with ssh instead, something like:
>
> rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /home/ user@host:/home
>
> This has the added benefit that if it fails midway (network dies, e.g.)
> you can just re-run it to start where you left off. Note the trailing
> slash on the source /home/, that's important.
Or, you can cd to /home before starting and use '.' as the source
so you don't have to remember what the trailing / does:
cd /home
rsync -avz -e ssh --delete . user@host:/home
And the -z (compress) is probably only worthwhile on slow
connections.
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Les Mikesell
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