# Is there a way to get rclone copy to preserve metadata?

**URL:** <https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-rclone-copy-to-preserve-metadata/20682>\
**Category:** Help and Support\
**Created:** [November 25, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-rclone-copy-to-preserve-metadata/20682 "2020-11-25T22:21:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ncw](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/ncw/32/18_2.png) [@ncw](https://forum.rclone.org/u/ncw)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-get-rclone-copy-to-preserve-metadata/20682/2 "2020-11-26T15:31:50Z")

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Not currently is the answer.

This is this issue

> <https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/111>
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> For object storage systems that support custom (user defined) metadata types, include a flag (-meta?) that will also copy custom metadata...

What metadata in particular are you interested in? Rclone should preserve the content type though - I'm surprised that isn't preserved.

How exactly did you do the copy?

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