[Samba] preserving extended attributes during a file copy over the network

[Chris de Vidal]

--- Eric Chen <echen at ateonix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 2 linux machines, SOURCE and DEST on a
> network. I create some
> snapshots of the file structure on SOURCE and these
> snapshots have extended
> attributes. I want to copy the snapshots from SOURCE
> over to DEST over the
> network, but I don't want to lose the information on
> the extended
> attributes. Is there a way to do this using the
> samba protocol? Or do I have
> to modify the source code to allow the preservation
> of EA's. If anyone has
> any suggestions or can direct me to some helpful
> resources, please let me
> know. I could use some help on this matter. If there
> is another protocol
> that can support this file copy + preservation of
> EA's, please let me know.

Hi,
I answered a question _very_ similar to this last
week... perhaps it was you and you missed my answer?

Check marc.theaimsgroup.com.

/dev/idal

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