On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 07:34:29PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> hi, I wanna mirror the entire contents of my home dir on one
> shell to another.
> I have 2 remote hosts both with the same username.
> how can I accomplish this with scp
> more to the point? can I accomplish this with scp?
> I need to keep my directory structure intact as the remove host I
> wanna mirror from is constantly beins used as a place for me to serv
> web pages and run eggdrop bots.
> thanks in advance.
My preferred way to do this sort of thing is with rsync-over-ssh, e.g.
rsync -ave ssh path/ remote:path/
In this case,
rsync -ave ssh ~ remote:
would probably do what you want.
Check the rsync man page for details.
-Andrew.
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