----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert" <kerplop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Duplicating a partition remotely > I have a hard drive containing archived stuff accumulated since Oct '99 > (RH6.0) that is beginning to get errors. I need to get that stuff copied > to another drive in another machine. The two machines are networked, so > copying is no problem. The problem I'm having is finding a way to > preserve ownership, permissions and date/time. I've looked at rcp, ftp, > ftpcp, ftpcopy, wget, smbclient and some others whose names escape me > and haven't found (or have overlooked!) a way to preserve the attributes. > > Any suggestions? I've been doing the same thing lately. I've used scp to do the transfer. Try: scp -p remote_host:/remote/dir /local/dir The "-p" option preserves attributes. It works over ssh, so you'll have to have that working. It chokes on files over 2 Gigs (between Mandrake and Fedora, at least), but otherwise does a great job, and gives a nifty progress meter. Try "man scp" for more info.
