Re: Moving files from Linux to Novell - Permissions problems

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   We keep all copies of emails sent / received by our email server. I would
>like to "mv" the email from our Linux box to a Novell server for long term
>storage. (Novell server has the .dat drive and a WAY larger drive). When I
>mv the files I'm getting the following error:
>mv: preserving ownership for `/mnt/email_vault/vault-20010521-093251':
>Operation not permitted

Yep.  Seen many things like this in various situations.  When moving wads of file across networks I have much better luck/speed using tar...

(tar -cf - /var/spool/mail) | (tar -C /mnt/email_vault -xf - )

tar is used to dealing with shifty permissions, users that don't exist, etc....