SCP problem -

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 15:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
>     Is there something wrong with this command?
> 
>         [root at box9 simple]# scp -r  bobg at box8:/home/bobg/
>         /run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU
> 
>     I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of
>     /home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The problem
>     is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files until
>     the 500 gigs is reached. I let it run until the end yesterday and it
>     quit protesting it had run out of space.
> 
>     I thought I had made an error entering the command and started again
>     from scratch [after rm -fr] but it looks like it was doing the same
>     thing now and I stopped it. Watching the screen I can see it is
>     recopying the same files, du -h shows 228G on the external drive and
>     it was still going when I stopped it. The source drive shows 44G ...
> 
>     What am I doing wrong?
> 
>     Bob
> 
>     -- 
>     http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
> 
>     box7
> 

I would start on box9 and run: scp -r /home/bobg bobg at box8:/home/
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