How to preserve files original creation date?

Question

I'm moving files on the server from one directory to another using the file manager. Is there a way to preserve file creation date/time (when it was first added to server)? Someone suggested SSH, but I'm not very familiar with it. Does anyone have some good instructions on this?

Answer 1

Use scp with the -p option.

 -p      Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file.

Example command copying a file from local to remote server:

scp -p /home/mylocaldata/test.txt remote.example.com:/home/remote_dir

Note that this will not preserve user and group only permission flags (rwx and such).