Kim,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.
I would use rsync. From the workstation something like the following should work.
rsync -Pav --rsh=ssh root@your_server:/from_dir/ /to_dir/
replace user, server, from&to paths as appropriate
Thanks,
Dale
