Bug 144564 – Intuitive way to preserve symbolic links

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Bug 144564 - Intuitive way to preserve symbolic links

Summary:	Intuitive way to preserve symbolic links

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	openssh (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tomas Mraz
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Reported:	2005-01-08 07:44 EST by Christopher Beland
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:10 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-02-10 05:28:34 EST
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Description Christopher Beland 2005-01-08 07:44:40 EST

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 13:07:41 EST

Or use rsync...

Comment 2 keith adamson 2005-01-08 19:20:45 EST

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 05:28:34 EST

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

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