Preserve permission with scp

cpscp

SCP does not seem to preserve ownership stamps even if used with -p option.

scp -p /mysql/serv/data_summary.* some_server:/mysql/test/

The files are owned by mysql and I want the same ownership to be assigned on the destination server. I need to copy files as root on both servers due to some admin issues. I can not change to mysql@

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Try to use rsync, it has a lot more benefits besides keeping ownership, permissions and incremental copies:

rsync -av source 192.0.2.1:/dest/ination

Besides that, since rsync uses ssh, it should work where scp works.

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Linux SCP – Can SCP Copy Directories Recursively?

Yup, use -r:

scp -rp sourcedirectory user@dest:/path

-r means recursive
-p preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

Note: This creates the sourcedirectory inside /path thus the files will be in /path/sourcedirectory

SCP – How to Move Files with SCP?

rsync over ssh is probably your best bet with the --remove-source-files option

rsync -avz --remove-source-files -e ssh /this/dir remoteuser@remotehost:/remote/dir

a quick test gives;

[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ mkdir test1
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ mkdir test2
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ touch test1/testfile.1
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ ls test1/
testfile.1
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ rsync --remove-source-files -av -e ssh test1/testfile.1 tomh@localhost:/home/tomh/test2/
sending incremental file list

sent 58 bytes  received 12 bytes  10.77 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ ls test1/
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$
[tomh@workstation001 ~]$ ls test2/
testfile.1

As @SvenW mentioned, -e ssh is the default so can be omitted.

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Linux SCP – Can SCP Copy Directories Recursively?

SCP – How to Move Files with SCP?

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