[BLUG] scp -p preserving ownership through root user

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Shing-Shong Shei wrote:

> It doesn't look like you were using tar???  If you use tar, you 
> should have only one file and you don't need 'scp -r'; e.g.,
 	[...]
> Am I missing something?

 	Well, I left out two things, anyway. I always do the full 
nine yards of scp -- with -r, and both IPs, full paths, the works 
-- just because that's the only I have a better than even chance 
of getting it right and making it do what I mean it to. Also, for 
the record, I usually did all of /home, as root (in order to get 
things like root's .bash_history); so of course I also had to do 
a chown at the other end.

 	But the relevant point to what I was answering is only 
that tar does not follow symlinks by default; if you want it to 
track them down and include them, you have to tell it to. 
Otherwise, using it for the purpose I did, you gradually 
accumulate obscure but irritating failures of exactly the kind of 
things I was trying to preserve.

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