I'd take a look at passing a tar through an ssh pipe. something like the following:
tar czf - dir | ssh dest "tar xzfp --same-owner - -C destdir David On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:23 AM, James Carroll <jlcarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Newbie question again, > > So I am upgrading my server, and was trying to copy all the information in > my home directories to the new machine while keeping the old machine up and > running until the last minute. If the home drive had been local, I would > have done cp -a oldhome newhome, but since I am doing this over the network, > I wanted to do scp -a oldhome newhome, but scp doesn't have the -a option, > so I manned scp, and it has a -p option, but that doesn't preserve > user/group information, and the man page had no information that I could > find about how to preserve user information while copying with scp. > > I did some work to get the user/group id's to be the same on both machines, > now I just need to copy the files preserving this information. > > scp -p seemed to preserve privileges, but root ended up owning everything > with everything in the group root. I could do the copy that way, and then > change the user/group info recursively, but that will reek havoc with my > shared git repos group settings which would be a pain to fix by hand. There > HAS to be a better way. > > What is the right way to do this backup over ssh while preserving this > user/group information? I figured that I could google it and find lots of > ways of doing things (for example, I could mount nfs), but I was wondering > what the RIGHT way to do this is, especially if I wanted to do it over ssh > instead of nfs. > > Thanks a ton, > > James > > -- > Web: http://james.jlcarroll.net > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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