This is ridiculous, like in so many other man pages.
Is there a difference between scp and, like it says in my man page, sftp? Why
would i need any of them anyway? What user ID on what other host, and why is
there supposed to be a dot in the host name?
This is just about getting a file back from one hard disk to another! What is
the sense of all this fuzz? It takes me a couple of minutes to copy my most
important folders to another disk and there i can find any file in a very
short time! Why should i learn commands for backing up or look them up each
time i want to restore a file (which rarely is the case)?! Why can't the
backup program simply show me the folder structure as it was copied and let
me choose which folder/file to restore? Copying entire folders seems to be
the easiest way to do backups, even for people who think they might once need
an older version of a file.
By the way, my external hard disk has space characters in its name and i
can't change the name, not even as root ("device is occupied"). So i can't
access it via shell. Any suggestions?
