preserving perms/owner with scp?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 10, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 05/10/04 16:21, Kurt Wall wrote:
>>In a 0.4K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone know of a way to preserve permissions & ownership when moving files
>>>with scp?
>>
>>
>>scp -p 
>>
>>Kurt
>
>hrmmm, tried scp'ing files that were owned by another user as root. 
>they ended up being owned by root.  am i missing something?

Does the other user exist on the target system?

Rsync will also handle this, and often more efficiently as it
only has to copy things that have changed (and those using a
binary diff technique that minimizes bandwidth).

Bill
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