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shantanuo
Asked: 2012-03-20 23:09:45 +0800 CST

preserve permission with scp

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SCP does not seem to preserve ownership stamps even if used with -p option.

scp -p /mysql/serv/data_summary.* some_server:/mysql/test/

The files are owned by mysql and I want the same ownership to be assigned on the destination server. I need to copy files as root on both servers due to some admin issues. I can not change to mysql@

scp cp

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try to use rsync, it has a lot more benefits besides keeping ownership, permissions and incremental copies:

    rsync -av source 192.0.2.1:/dest/ination

    Besides that, since rsync uses ssh, it should work where scp works.

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  2. That is correct. "-p" does not do that. See the man page:

         -p      Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
             original file.

    Notice it says times and modes, NOT user/group ownership. You will have better luck with "rsync", as it has various capabilities around preserving permissions when copying between disparate systems. "-p" in rsync, for example.

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