preserving perms/owner with scp?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 10, 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>Net Llama! wrote:
>>Is rsync any more likely to preserve perms & ownership?
>
>rsync is very good about these things. It has lots of options to control 
>the behavior. Between 2 unix-ish file systems, I would expect perfect 
>preservation with the right options.

The only problem I've had with rsync, that I've never figured out, is that
symbolic links get converted to relative links instead of fixed.  That is a
symlink to /home/blurfl gets transferred as a symlink to home/blurfl using
options to rsync such as ``rsync -varP ./ system::path_to''

Bill
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