On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:11:58PM -0500, Scott Chilcote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My initial guess was that scp follows links, and there must be a lot of > linked stuff being copied. I looked at the man page for scp, and didn't > see any reference to how links or handled (or not). I didn't see any > parameters that control this either, like tar provides. > > There are a number of links in the data being copied, but I have trouble > believing that it would result in nearly three times as much stuff! > > Is this a "follow links" problem, and does anyone know a way around it?
You will find "rsync" has better control for following/not-following links. Rsync can be tunneled over ssh using "-e ssh" as a parameter. Rsync must be present on the source and target system. David -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
