A system administrator must copy the directory "/var/log" and all of its subdirectories from the local server to a remote host while ensuring that the original file permissions and timestamps are preserved. Which option combination should be used with scp to meet this requirement?
-pr
-p
-P
-r
The -r option tells scp to copy directories recursively. The -p option preserves modification and access times as well as file modes (permissions). Using both flags together (-pr or -rp) therefore copies the complete directory tree while retaining the desired metadata. By contrast, -p alone would preserve metadata but would not recurse into subdirectories, -r alone would recurse but reset timestamps and permissions, and -P only specifies an alternate SSH port.
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