[K12OSN] Help! 280gigs of one student folder copied recursively into inself

[Darryl Palmer]

On 9/25/06, Jim Christiansen <christiansen_j at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know how this happenned, but I started an scp job of my student
> homes from the old server across to the new server and walked away.  Today
> I
> have found that the 8 gigs of data has grown to fill the entire 320 gig
> drive, most of it being one student's directory recursively copied into
> itself...



Be very careful with scp, it is very primative.  SCP will follow links, so
if you have a link to a parent directory it will infinately nest.  That is
one reason doing a scp -r of / will hose up your backup site.


Take a look at using tar or rsync instead at:
http://happygiraffe.net/copy-net

Darryl
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