Comments on: Securely copy files with scp

By: markus

markus — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:27:44 +0000

hey jack,
nice post, but what if the connection breaks and you are not sure if the file was really transfered?
a better tool for transfering files is rsync which can be used with ssh, either

for example

rsync -ave ssh remoteuser@remotehost:/userhome /copy/here

for options etc see man rsync or http://everythinglinux.org/rsync/

cheers, Markus

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:09:52 +0000

Jack -

Great article! One extra tip for you (I just learned this myself a few weeks ago). If you don’t specify a directory for the destination, if you just put “:” it will default to the user’s home directory.

For example:

scp filex brad@myhost.com:

will drop filex into brad’s home directory at myhost.com. Saves a little bit of typing.

-Brad

By: Paulus

Paulus — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:29:08 +0000

Jack, i realy can understand that you want to live overhere. I was in the seventies a few times in the U.S.A. and i was very deaply striken (hit) by the total (financiel and mentaly) poornes, of the U.S.A. in total. And because i followed the U.S.A. closely from the seventies i saw the declining line going futher and futher down. My advies to the U.S.A. forbid all wapons for private people, make healthcare affordable and realy jack the training for especially the socially disadvantaged. And one more advice to the U.S.A. less 90210 (less Nietzsche and more Schopenhauer).

By: jack

jack — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:27:00 +0000

Paulus: My family tree begins in the Netherlands, but I live in the United States. My wife and I certainly wish we lived in the Netherlands!

By: Paulus

Paulus — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:26:59 +0000

Great read for a great app. But now something completely different Jack. Are you from the Netherlands, with that sirname? Wallen ( this is the name of the read district in Amsterdam, the Netherlands).