Duplicating a partition remotely

Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 21 17:31:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:59:44AM -0600, 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?

Did you overlook nfs?


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