[vox-tech] Copying data from Windows share to Linux server *with* original date stamps and permissions

[Jonathan Stickel]

Richard Burkhart wrote:
> Anyone have suggestions on a set of shell commands I can pipe together to:
>  - Batch transfer multiple files & directories from a windows (server 
> 2000) machine onto a Linux machine
>  - Maintain as many of the original file permissions as will make it 
> across the samba link
>  - Maintain the original file save dates from the windows side (the 
> first time I did a mass cp, it changed all the target-file dates to the 
> day of the copy)
>  - Set the archive bit on the source media, so that if I have to do this 
> again to catch updates I can just grab updated files.
> 
> Last night google led me to a website describing a way to start with 
> tar, pipe that output to a couple of  commands to transfer to the new 
> machine, then un-tar it out to the new drive.  Unfortunately, I can't 
> find that page again -- and until I go home, I won't be able to check my 
> browser history.
> 
> Suggestions?  Help?  Por favor?
> 
> 
> Richard B.

You might want to check out rsync.  Something like "rsync -vrt" will at 
least save preserve the time information.

Jonathan