Can scp be used to update a directory?

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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
>   

Here's a sample of what I use every day to sync my home directory to 
another machine where ssh runs on port 8090, excluding the Cache of any 
mozilla based browser (--exclude=Cache) , deleting any excluded files 
that by accident may have been sent to the destination and files that 
have been removed (--delete-excluded includes --delete) and copying the 
contents of symlinks, instead of copying the links (--copy-links).
rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 8090' /home/pmacedo/ my_other_machine:~/sync/ 
--delete-excluded --exclude=Cache --copy-links  

One caveat: you must be running rsync either from the source or the 
destination machine, since rsync wont do remote to remote syncs using ssh.
That's usually what I use and I've never needed any other options 
besides those to do any type of sync.

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Pedro Macedo