F11 scp stalls - rsync command

[David Timms]

On 06/28/2009 02:26 AM, Craig White wrote:
> 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??
> ----
> 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.
And it is fairly easy:
rsync -a sourceip:/sourcefolder/ destip:/destfolder/

You will have already accepted the sshkey if your are successfully using 
scp.
The way I like to do it:
time rsync --progress --stats -az 192.168.32.16:/home/myname/ 
192.168.32.17:/home/myname/

So, not so hard, really.

This is how I effectively move the files:
1. rsync as above
2. rsync as above with -azc  (to cause recheck of checksum comparison 
(not just file/size/times), confirms no problems with written data.
3. rsync --remove-source-files

You will probably have trouble if the myname user is logged in on either 
machine when you are trying this. Also, if the UID/GID are different 
between machines you might have a to sort that out.

DaveT.