Jerry Geis wrote:
/ I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2.
/>>/ I am getting arg list to long.
/>>/
/>>/ I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2.
/>>/
/>>/ I am using the default shell which is bash.
/>>/
/>>/ How can I get past this?
/
Change your rsync command around a bit.
(If you can show us the command you're using, we can make some
suggestions)
I would gather that you have a huge amount of files in the dir you're
syncing.
I was trying to do "rsync -a root@machine2:/somedirectory ."
There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files.
also tried "scp -r root@machine2:/somedirectory ." with the same result
of too many files.
Are you sure that was the exact command? Rsync can handle a huge number
of files internally, although it does require a certain amount of memory
for each filename in the tree during the transfer. You should only see
that 'arg list too long' error if you let the shell expand a wildcard
like * in a directory containing many files.
I usually prefer to go the source machine/directory and give the command
like "rsync -a . somemachine:/somedirectory", though.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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