SCP problem -

[Sam Varshavchik]

Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA writes:

>
>    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.

You will find your answer in the scp man page:

     -r      Recursively copy entire directories.  Note that scp follows sym‐
                                                                 ============
             bolic links encountered in the tree traversal.
             ==============================================

Somewhere in your home directory you have a symlink pointing to a parent  
directory. This will result in scp -r going into an infinite loop, as it  
keeps finding and recurse into the same symlink.

Eventually, if the target is big enough, scp -r will probably fail, when the  
constructed pathname finally exceeds PATH_MAX :-)


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