The hard drive is full on our server. I can ssh into it from my workstation. I've got a formatted drive mounted on my workstation ready to receive the server files. How do I easily copy the server files to the workstation drive over our network ? Keep in mind that I need to preserve the file ownership, permissions and dates. If I had the new hard drive mounted on the server, I would use: cp -aR /olddrive /newdrive >> logfile I've tried using scp, but I cannot force it to preserve the file attributes. I've tried using sftp, but I don't think it is recursive and I can't force it to preserve attributes. I'm trying to use tar, but I can't figure out how to make it work across a network. FWIW, I have sshd enabled on the server, but not on the workstation. I don't have nfs enabled on the server. Can I do this without enabling it ? Any hints would be appreciated. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
