scp and symlinks

[Net Llama!]

On 11/20/2004 07:11 AM, Dr. Jones wrote:
> Jorge Almeida wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A workaround is to use rsync:
>>>
>>> rsync -r -e ssh path user at host:/path
>>> rsync -r -e ssh user at host:/path path
>>>
>>> -r tells rsync to recurse into directovies. -e ssh specifies the remote
>>> shell (ssh in this case) for rsync to use.
>>>
>> It works great (I added the -l flag).
>> Thank you.
> 
> 
> Just curious how rsync compares with using scp? I routinely invoke scp 
> on my linux box at home to transfer files from work, instead of having 
> to find the right zip disk, a la :
> 
> scp scott at my.ip.numberat.work:/usr/archive/blah/blah/blah/*  
> /home/scott/archive
> 
> It seems to work pretty well, and I always have a backup of my data 
> files. What interests me about rsync is the "sync" part of the name. I 
> would like to set up a better backup and/or transfer routine that will 
> just grab all the files newly created or changed on my work machine. Is 
> there a way to run either rsync or scp on a batch file, to have it just 
> grab the files new or altered on a given day, or even better, just the 
> changed portions instead of downloading the entire files?

What Kurt advocated is rsync over ssh, so its kinda like scp using rsync.


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