Mike, look at the path after the colon:
what that says is:
'copy whatever is inbound to a directory named "mnt/sda1"
located in my HOME directory'
Is that what you want?
Probably not...
ET 

 

Michael Havens writes: 

> hmmmmm.... not working. I wonder why. Any ideas? 
> 
> bmike1@Michaels-Laptop ~ $ scp -r -o Compression yes -o CompressionLevel 9
> -o HostName 192.168.0.3:mnt/sda1
> fatherswithforeignbabies.us@fatherswithforeignbabies.us:copies/2012-2-17
> command-line line 0: Missing yes/no argument.
> lost connection
> bmike1@Michaels-Laptop ~ $ 
> 
> The yes/no argument is there though!
> I tried putting the yes in quotes, capitalized, just y, and some others I
> can't remember. 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> cool.... after investigating further I've modified my command string.
>> Could you show me how to make it right (I just assume I'm wrong anymore!)? 
>>
>> scp -r -o Compression yes -o CompressionLevel 9 user1@host1:mnt/sda1
>> user2@host2:desired/directory/file/name 
>>
>>
>  
> 
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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