i agree, try rsync. On 1/6/06, David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sorry I don't have an answer, but have you tried using rsync to see > what it does? > > > On 1/6/06, Mark Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am recovering data from a crashed windows drive formatted with > ntfs. I > > have the drive in an external enclosure and it is connected at > > /media/usbdisk. There are all kinds of bad sectors and messed up files > on > > this drive and I have been getting data from it for the past few days > but I > > have run into a strange situation when copying files and I wanted to see > if > > anyone had heard of this before... > > > > I've connected the external drive to my laptop and scp'd files over to > my > > server and I've connected the drive straight to my server and just cp'd > the > > files. Everything seemed to be working until I tried to copy a large > > (~30GB) directory over. Unlike the other stuff I have copied from the > drive > > this is a directory of directories of directories of files. The other > things > > I copied had no subdir's. I did scp -r to get all of the subdirectories > but > > it only copied maybe 5 out of 60. I thought it may have been because I > was > > scp'ing over a wireless laptop connection and it might be timing out so > I > > connected directly to the server and got the same result. The strange > part > > is that I can cd directly to these subdir's and cp the files manually. > > > > Does anyone have any idea why cp would only get some subdir's and not > > others? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark. > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >
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