[gentoo-user] copy file and preserve ownership

[gentoo-user] copy file and preserve ownership

[Joseph]

I like to use meld to copy file but meld does now preserve ownership of the file that it copy.
rsyc does but how do I use rysnc to copy let say file that are newer then certain date ?

I was trying to use:
find /home/myuser/oldir/* -mtime -60 -exec cp {} /home/myuser/newdir/ \;

but cp does not preserve file ownership either.

I was planning on copying hylafax-files (faxes) from one server to another and most of those files have ownership "uucp:60002 or "uucp:uucp"

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Joseph

[gentoo-user] Re: copy file and preserve ownership

[Jouni Kosonen]

Joseph wrote:

> I like to use meld to copy file but meld does now preserve ownership of
> the file that it copy. rsyc does but how do I use rysnc to copy let say
> file that are newer then certain date ?
> 
> I was trying to use:
> find /home/myuser/oldir/* -mtime -60 -exec cp {} /home/myuser/newdir/ \;
> 
> but cp does not preserve file ownership either.
> 
> I was planning on copying hylafax-files (faxes) from one server to another
> and most of those files have ownership "uucp:60002 or "uucp:uucp"
> 

From "man cp":
...

       -p     same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps

       --preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
              preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,
              timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context, 
              links, xattr, all


Might I suggest a pattern here? ;-)
---
Jouni

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: copy file and preserve ownership

[Joseph]

On 09/18/14 02:14, Jouni Kosonen wrote:
>Joseph wrote:
>
>> I like to use meld to copy file but meld does now preserve ownership of
>> the file that it copy. rsyc does but how do I use rysnc to copy let say
>> file that are newer then certain date ?
>>
>> I was trying to use:
>> find /home/myuser/oldir/* -mtime -60 -exec cp {} /home/myuser/newdir/ \;
>>
>> but cp does not preserve file ownership either.
>>
>> I was planning on copying hylafax-files (faxes) from one server to another
>> and most of those files have ownership "uucp:60002 or "uucp:uucp"
>>
>
>From "man cp":
>...
>
>       -p     same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
>
>       --preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
>              preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,
>              timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context,
>              links, xattr, all
>
>
>Might I suggest a pattern here? ;-)
>---
>Jouni

Thank, missed that :-/

-- 
Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] copy file and preserve ownership

[Alan McKinnon]

On 18/09/2014 00:54, Joseph wrote:
> I like to use meld to copy file but meld does now preserve ownership of
> the file that it copy.
> rsyc does but how do I use rysnc to copy let say file that are newer
> then certain date ?
> 
> I was trying to use:
> find /home/myuser/oldir/* -mtime -60 -exec cp {} /home/myuser/newdir/ \;
> 
> but cp does not preserve file ownership either.

Basic Unix principle:
Only root can do it because a regular user cannot chown an object

cp -a

or

cp -pr


> 
> I was planning on copying hylafax-files (faxes) from one server to
> another and most of those files have ownership "uucp:60002 or "uucp:uucp"
> 


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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com