On machine A I have the folder
/home/a/
On machine B I have the folder
/home/b/
I wish transfer all files, directories and sub-directories of /home/a in /home/b with sftp On machine A I tried the commands:
sftp fibon82@machineB.com
put /home/a/* /home/b/
but it doesn't work, i get the error message: "skipping non-regular file /home/a/a1"... [a1 is a sub-directory of a]
How could I modify the put instruction?
Thanks! :)
I solved using scp:
scp -r /home/a/ fibon82@machineB.com:/home/b/
Answer
Although not strictly equivalent to sftp, rsync is a very powerful alternative for scp and sftp, especially when updating the copies from machine A to machine B, as it doesn't copy the files that haven't been altered; it's also able to remove files from machine B that have been deleted from machine A (only when it's told to of course).
In your case, the syntax would be
rsync -zrp /home/a/ user@remote.host.com:/home/b/
The -r
option is for recursively copying files, -z
enables compression during the transfer, and -p
preserves the file permissions (file creation, edit, etc.) when copying, which is something that scp doesn't do AFAIK. Many more options are possible; as usual, read the man
pages.
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