Bug 144564

Summary:	Intuitive way to preserve symbolic links
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher Beland <beland>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Christopher Beland 2005-01-08 12:44:40 UTC

openssh-clients-3.9p1-7

It would be handy if scp took an argument similar to cp's
--no-dereference, to allow it to preserve symbolic links.  That way,
it'd be easy to replicate a directory/file structure with links
intact, from machine to machine.

Currently, you have to do something like the following (arguably
non-intuititve, certainly less convenient) workaround.

tar -cf - /source | ssh hostname.domain tar -xf - -C /destination

Comment 1 Sitsofe Wheeler 2005-01-08 18:07:41 UTC

Or use rsync...

Comment 2 keith adamson 2005-01-09 00:20:45 UTC

as in ...

rsync -avze ssh \
    username@hostname:/name/of/directory/to/copy/from/ \
    /name/of/directory/to/copy/to/

or ...

rsync -avze ssh \
    /name/of/directory/to/copy/from/ \
    username@hostname:/name/of/directory/to/copy/to/

rsync is great!!

Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2005-02-10 10:28:34 UTC

Sorry but this was rejected upstream as it would break the rcp/scp
protocol. Use sftp or rsync.