How-To: copy files over the network and preserve file permissions and informations with ssh and rsync

Published in www.debuntu.org - 20-06-2008

When copying files over the network, the files informations can be modified. When using cp, one can avoid this issue by using the -a which will do the copy in archive mode, meaning that it will keep the links, preserve mode, ownership and timestamps and the copy is recursive. the solution to this over the network is rsync alongside with ssh. read more