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?
Thanks to all who replied. I tried scp as suggested and found the permissions to be copied across o.k., but owner & group to be changed.
I suppose that's no big deal for this particular application but I've
decided to go with tar anyhow because it will do (slowly, perhaps) exactly what I want but more importantly because I'm already familiar with it and comfort counts.
Thanks again. Robert
