Can scp be used to update a directory?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Mar 18 17:09:13 UTC 2006


On Saturday 18 March 2006 17:01, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:05:20PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> it only does that with the --delete option, not by default.
>
Really?  I had completely misunderstood, then.

Any advice/caveats?  With a man page running to 34 pages it will take a bit of 
digesting ;-)

Anne
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