---
name: "ncopy"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ncpfs"
version: "2.2.6-9"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ncopy"
---

# ncopy(1)

NetWare file copy

## NAME

ncopy - NetWare file copy

## SYNOPSIS

**ncopy -V**

**ncopy** \[ **-vmMnpptu** \] \[ **-s** *amount* \] **file** **destinationfile**\|**directory**

**ncopy** \[ **-vmMnpptu** \] \[ **-s** *amount* \] **file1** \[ **file2 ...** \] **directory**

**ncopy** **-r** \[ **-vmMnpptu** \] \[ **-s** *amount* \] **srcdir** **dstdir**

## DESCRIPTION

With **ncopy** you can copy files to different locations on a single  NetWare file server without generating excess network traffic.  The  program uses a NetWare function to do the copy rather than transferring  the file across the network for both the read and write.

If the last argument is a directory, **ncopy** will copy the source  file(s) into the directory.  If only two files are given and the last  argument is not a directory, it will copy the source file to the destination  file.

If the source and destination files are not on the same NetWare server  (or are not on NetWare servers at all), **ncopy** will do a normal file  copy.

## OPTIONS

- **-V**

  Show version number and exit

- **-v**

  Verbose copy.  Will show current file and percentage completion.

- **-m**

  Copy MAC resource fork. Copies MAC resource fork together with data fork.

- **-M**

  Copy MAC resource fork to/from non-MAC filesystem. It expects/creates  resource forks in subdirectory *.rsrc* of each directory copied.

  If you want to copy files from MAC volume to *.rsrc* scheme, you must specify both options, **-mM**. It is not possible to  create *.rsrc* directory on MAC-aware volume in one step, you must  first copy data to non-MAC media using **ncopy -mM** and then copy them back using **ncopy -M**.

  If you want to copy files from *.rsrc* scheme on MAC volume to real MAC multiple-forks file, you must first copy data to non-MAC filesystem using **ncopy -M** and then copy them back using  **ncopy -mM**.

- **-n**

  Nice NetWare copy.  Will sleep for a second between copying blocks on the NetWare server.  Gives other people a chance to do some work on  the NetWare server when you are copying large files.  This has no effect if you are not copying on a NetWare server.

- **-s** *amount*

  Nice time slice factor.  Used in conjunction with the  **-n** option, this specifies the number of 100K blocks to copy before sleeping. Default is 10. (1 Megabyte)

- **-p**

  Preserve file attributes and date/time during copy.

- **-pp**

  Preserve file attributes, date/time and owner during copy. Name of owner is preserved, not owner ID.

- **-t**

  Preserve trustees during copy. Trustee name is preserved, not ID.

- **-r**

  Perform recursive copy.

- **-u**

  Perform copy only if mtime or size differs.

## BUGS

**ncopy** does not preserve long (MAC, NFS, FTAM, OS2) names during copy.

## SEE ALSO

**[ncpmount(8)](/ncpmount/8.md), [ncpumount(8)](/ncpumount/8.md)**

## CREDITS

ncopy was written by Brian G. Reid (breid@tim.com) and Tom C. Henderson (thenderson@tim.com).  Many thanks to Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de) for the ncpfs and ncplib which made ncopy possible. Some further work was done by Petr Vandrovec (vandrove@vc.cvut.cz).