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How to transfer files over network preserving the xattrs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Title.

The situation is basically this:

NFS works, it's very fast, keeps the xattrs but if used without Kerberos it's not secure. If used with Kerberos it works, but has a ticket that expires and forces me to reenter the credentials frequently in order to use it. If there was a way to use NFS with Kerberos and save the credentials NFS would be the perfect solution.
Samba works fine too, also keeps the xattrs but I had some troubles with filenames (mainly with some special characters, emoji, etc). Besides, as both my server and my clients run Linux I prefer to avoid it if I have the choice.
sshfs would be the natural choice, not as fast as NFS but it's pretty secure, I already use it in most of my network shares but I just can't find a way to make it preserve the files xattrs.

Do you guys have any suggestions or maybe any other options that I might use?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Rsync with the -a option is meant to preserve as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. In fact I tried rsync and it works. But is it possible to integrate in my current workflow? Maybe copying/moving files using a file manager?

I'm asking because with the 3 options I mentioned I may, for example, create mount points in fstab and from this there on everything would be transparent to the user. Would it be possible using rsync?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe copying/moving files using a file manager?

FileZilla

-or-

Gnome Commander

...but call me quaint. I still like...

... 'cause it always just works. mc can ostensibly preserve attributes, time-stamps, and (with appropriate privilege on the receiving end) ownership of transferred files (using an sftp server supposedly).

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