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
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