Robert - elists wrote:

I was trying to do "rsync -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/somedirectory ."

There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files.

also tried "scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/somedirectory ." with the same result of
too many files.

Jerry



First, back up the files to somewhere else on the same machine just in
case...

Then, consider doing a proper recursive tar or zip that preserves
permissions etc and dust the rest and then do it as only a single file or
thereabouts

rsync -a knows as much or more about permissions, etc. as tar and zip do. And it is vastly more efficient when you repeat it to the same destination.

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  Les Mikesell
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