When you move files across servers, you can use tar over ssh. By using tar, you can keep the same attribute for files and directories. This is faster that "scp -p".
Example: Here's how to copy over /usr/man/man1 from server1 to server2 in the same path.
server1> tar -cf - /usr/man/man1 | ssh server2 tar -xvf -
or
server2> ssh server1 tar -cf - /usr/man/man1 | tar -xvf -
This was first published in September 2002
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