Duplicating a partition remotely

[Jeff Vian]

Robert wrote:

> 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?

Using tar to create the copy will save and restore all the attributes.