Re: [BLUG] scp -p preserving ownership through root user

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Brian Wheeler wrote:

> ... Gnu tar does a pretty good job of getting it right, but
> there are still surprises lurking for the unwary.

Here's one more. Before any fresh install, I used to do
tar -xvzf on /home/user, then scp -r the tarball to another
machine, then scp -r back after the install. But all sorts of
oddments got messed up; I found out eventually that tar -xvzf
doesn't follow symlinks.

There's another switch for that, I disremember which.
Instead of learning it, I got lazy, and just took to using some
third machine while scp took up the bandwidth -- this on a mere
home LAN, of course.

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