On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:19:41 -0500 "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there something wrong with this command? > > [root@box9 simple]# scp -r bobg@box8:/home/bobg/ > /run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU > > I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of > /home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The > problem is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files > until the 500 gigs is reached. First of all, are you sure about the destination path? My external USB hard drives get mounted under /media, not /run/media. However, your problem seems to be in the circular links in the source /home/bobg/. Somewhere under the directory tree, there is probably a soft link pointing to its own parent directory (or several levels up). Since scp follows symbolic links (read about -r option in man scp), it gets into a loop, copying one directory subtree over and over and over. Apparently scp lacks an option to disable following symbolic links, so there is no easy way to fix this. Either look into the source directory to find and delete all looped links before you start copying (this may be buried somewhere deep inside some hidden dot-something directory), or use rsync instead, like others have suggested. I had the same problem on several occasions before, and most commonly I first created a .tar file of the source, and then scp the .tar over to the destination. Tar typically preserves the whole tree intact, along with loops, permissions, attributes, etc. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
