Actually, yes. I always forget about it, as it's just a little more complicated and I've not tried it. But yes, one guy where I used to work swore by it, using it all the time for just this reason.
Good catch. Rainer alan mcclellan wrote: > Does rsync do what you want (update only the modified files)? > > -alan > > Rainer Heilke wrote: >> Sorry, I've looked for something like this several times myself, but >> never found anything. >> >> What I tend to do now is scp everything to a new directory, and then >> mv -i it to the final spot. Does nothing to conserve disk space or >> network traffic, though... >> >> Rainer >> >> Euan Thoms wrote: >>> Is there an option for no-clobber (does not overwrite existing files) >>> in the command scp? "man scp" doesn' t reveal anything. I got one hit >>> in google which indicated that there was but perhaps that was the GNU >>> version of scp.
