Timo, > Right now I am doing a backup from my laptop to my workstation using > OpenSSH's secure copy. The problem is that i would like to copy only > newer files, cos it also transports my Ogg/Vorbis files (quite some > gigabytes) over net -quite not wanted. Is there a way like in normal cp > to tell scp that it should compare file's timestamps/sizes before > sending any files?
Use rsync with the -e ssh option. You'll get rsync's logic (only transfer data that's different) and the security / convenience of ssh / scp. You don't need to run the server on either end, but I think you probably need the rsync package on both ends. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer / Network Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier Program GPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle
