[TriLUG] File Size Wierdness in Copy from HP-UX to Linux

[rasch at raschnet.com]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:11:58PM -0500, Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at earthlink.net> wrote:
> My initial guess was that scp follows links, and there must be a lot of 
> linked stuff being copied.  I looked at the man page for scp, and didn't 
> see any reference to how links or handled (or not).  I didn't see any 
> parameters that control this either, like tar provides.
> 
> There are a number of links in the data being copied, but I have trouble 
> believing that it would result in nearly three times as much stuff!
> 
> Is this a "follow links" problem, and does anyone know a way around it?

You will find "rsync" has better control for following/not-following
links.  Rsync can be tunneled over ssh using "-e ssh" as a parameter.

Rsync must be present on the source and target system.

David