Can scp be used to update a directory?
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Mar 18 16:05:20 UTC 2006
On Saturday 18 March 2006 15:27, Andy Green wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The scp man page is not very verbose ;-) I want to copy a directory,
> > recursively, over the lan, but only those files that are new or updated.
> > MS-DOS could do this back in ...Ummm.... so I can't believe it can't be
> > done in scp, but I can't see how to do it.
>
> Use rsync for such tasks. It natively understands how to move files
> over ssh. Eg
>
> rsync -avz mysourcedir user at desthost:/path/on/destination
>
> will just update/transmit files changed in the source dir compared to
> the destination.
>
The reason I don't want to use rsync is, AIUI, rsync would delete files on the
remote box when they are deleted on the local one. I don't want that to
happen.
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