scp - peserve file ownership and permission
 

Hi all,

How to copy files and directory and preserves its ownership and permission using scp


I tried to use the option -p but it doesn't work.

I want to copy the local directory (directory_a) to the remote machine's /home directory and using the following command:

scp -rp /local/directory_a root@remote_machine:/home

The directory and its associated files were copied to the remote machine but the ownership of the files and directories changes to root:root.

I guess you'll need to pipe tar through
ssh to achieve that. scp doesn't "know"
about ownership.

Cheers,
Tink

Hi Tinkster,

But how to pipe tar through it as you have mentioned.

I don't know EXACTLY off the top of my head,
but it should look something like:
Google for ssh & tar for examples ;)

Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Tink

Thanks.

And, got it working? :)

Cheers,
Tink

I do the following and it works :

tar -cf -<directory> | ssh user@host tar -xf- -C<target directory>