Transfer home directory?

[Alan Dayley]

On Sun, September 17, 2006 6:07 am, Darrin Chandler wrote:
>
> FYI, scp has a nice -p option to preserve that info. Couldn't live
> without it!
>
> If you have scads of little files then tar is your friend, as that'll
> take a lot of extra time with plain scp -rp. If that 11GB is made of
> files in the MB range then scp will make good enough use of bandwidth.
> If the large files aren't already compressed then using -C with scp will
> also help a lot.

Does scp copy hidden (ie ".*") directories?  I am not yet seeing that it
is happening.  I'll do some additional tests.

Alan