Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Kevin Buettner so:

> No, but "scp -r" will.  That said, there may still be reasons to prefer
> tar (with ssh) over scp.  (E.g, tar may do a better job at preserving
> certain file attributes than scp -rp.)

Yup, --atime-preserve will maintain timestamps on directories. scp, cp and
cpio won't do that.

I'm not sure about rsync, but I think it won't maintain dir timestamps.

I think they all preserve file timestamps and perms just fine, though.

ciao,

der.hans
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