how to sftp /home plus subdirectories -

[Bob Goodwin USA]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:57 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
>   
>> Can someone tell me what the proper command is to transfer the entire 
>> home directory plus it's subdirectories between two Fedora computers.  I 
>> have no trouble moving files but can't seem to figure out how to do it 
>> in one fell swoop, if it is possible to do so?
>>
>> I've tried gftp but that gets me into other uncertainties and has wasted 
>> my time.
>>
>> I should be able to issue a "get" command it would seem?
>>     
>
> Rsync is superior to ftp for this, for various reasons (security,
> copying permissions, compression, optionally leaving stuff out etc.
> etc.). It's easiest if you have SSH access to the target machine, e.g.:
>
> rsync -az From.some.where:/home/foo/ To.somewhere.else:/home/foo
>
> poc
>
>   

Ok, thanks to all, I will try rsync, I guess I should have known to try 
that but it did not occur to me since I have been doing sftp for a while.

Again. thanks for the quick response.

Bob Godwin