SCP problem -

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 11/25/2012 02:15 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 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. ==============================================
> 

Fixed by "-d".
I'd personally just use "-a", which includes both. :-)

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