Maintaining Ownership When Copying Files and Directories

[Matthijs.Sneijders at corusgroup.com]

i always like:
find . -depth -print  |cpio -pdmuv "destination"

but also
rsync -azu source target

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Maybe something like:

cd source; tar -cf - * | ( cd destination; tar -xfp -)

Josh

On 4/3/07, Sean McGlynn <sean_mcglynn at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On a RHEL4 server I have mounted a directory from another RHEL4
server.  I
> want to copy the files from the mounted directory, maintaining ownership
and
> permissions.  When I attempt to do a copy as root I get a permission
denied
> message.  When I do a cp -r --preserve=all as a user who is a member of a
> group who has rights to the directory I am able to do the copy, the
> permissions are maintained, but the ownership is not.  This makes sense
as
> the man page for cp say you need to be root to change ownership.  So how
can
> I make this happen if I can't do it as root?  The group is maintained in
> eDirectory, so I can't add root to the group.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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