[ILUG] Re: [Q] Transferring c.200GiB via net, preserving attributes... How?

[Brian Foster]

Niall O Broin suggests:
> rsync is definitely the answer to your question.  You say you want
> to preserve owner/group but what do you mean exactly - do you
> want to preserve UID/GID or owner name/group name?

 Good question!  I just assumed UID/GID, since  (1) I didn't
 know ‘rsync’ could do otherwise;  and  (2) Am well aware
 names are usually a poor choice for archival(-like) actions.

 HOWEVER, in this case, the names happen to be the same (but
 with deliberately differing UIDs).  So name-preserving seems
 like it would cut out a step (the ‘chown’ on New).

Another person (not posted to the list?) suggests:
> Yes, rsync is probably your handiest bet here.  I tend to "pull" when
> I do this, though I don't think that matters too much...  You can run
> it as root, or tunnel it through ssh
> ( -e ssh root at old:/path/to/files /path/to/dest) ...

 What would be the point of tunneling through ssh ?
 Apologies if that's a silly question....
 ( In thinking about it  — assume pulling —  that would
  seem to handle the authentication puzzle on Old. )

 Obviously I need to experiment a bit, since I'm also
 obviously out of my comfort zone here....  ;-\

cheers!
	-blf-

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