How the heck do you copy a directory structure from one server to the other and preserve *ALL* attributes?

[Red Squirrel]

Trying everything like scp, taring etc.. Nothing is working. I want to copy a directory from one server to the other, and have everything match. Time stamps, owner, permissions, etc...

How do I go about doing that?

Basically I cloned a server to a VM, and now I want to make it live, so I just want to copy the /home folder so that everything is up to date, as the old server is still production right now so stuff changed since the clone.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nevermind, seems rsync is indeed working with the "a" option, it's just that it does not apply everything right away so while it's copying it does not appear to be working but then everything starts to update after.

 

[Bardock]

then use the info flag

rsync --info=progress2 -avz /source /destination

all in the man page

 

[skyking]

thanks I'll be doing this when the corona dust settles with several gigs of files.