Maintaining Ownership When Copying Files and Directories

[Sean McGlynn]

OK, I see that running the command from the source is the way to go (at least for cpio, I don't appear to have afio).  But unfortunately it is not maintaining ownership, which is the issue.  I can't access the source as root, which is the "root" of the problem, and running the command as a user who has access to the source is what, I believe, is inhibiting the maintenance of the ownership.

Same deal for rsync.

Thank you.


----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Canfield <jcanfield at tshmail.com>
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 2:02:24 PM
Subject: Re: Maintaining Ownership When Copying Files and Directories


Matthijs.Sneijders at corusgroup.com wrote:
> i always like:
> find . -depth -print  |cpio -pdmuv "destination"
>
> but also
> rsync -azu source target
>
>   
I like it too.  For "safer" file level compression use you could also 
use afio:

find . -depth -print  |afio -o -v -Z "destination"


-Jim


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