F11 scp stalls

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 16:18 +0000, Beartooth TpBkR wrote:
> 	I've been using scp to transfer data and settings around from one 
> machine on my LAN to another. (I know, I should use rsync instead; I hope 
> to get started learning it one of these days. Meanwhile, scp is the tool 
> to hand.)
> 
> 	At the moment, I'm in process of copying my home directory (some 
> 9.2 GB) from my #1 (F10) machine to one already upgraded to F11. But the 
> scp has stopped, after doing 23% of a .jar file, saying "stalled." 
> 
> 	What, if anything, can I do to make scp resume from where it left 
> off??
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I don't believe that you can with scp. You can always use a hammer to
take the cap off the top of a beer bottle but that doesn't mean that it
is the best tool for the job. You already know that rsync is a better
tool for this purpose.

Craig


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