Can scp be used to update a directory?

Neil Cherry ncherry at comcast.net
Sat Mar 18 22:08:16 UTC 2006


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.

Another option is to use sitecopy, I use it to maintain my web
sites (which I keep a local copy of). I think you'll run into
the same problems as you are seeing now so it may not work any
better.

http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/

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