Re: SCP backup script

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Author: Mike Hoy
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: SCP backup script
oh!

i tried something similar, but i was leaving the trailing / on there.
and was getting file not found, so i switched to *.mp3 and it worked.
but now it really works

thanks.

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mike Hoy wrote:
>
>
>
>>scp -rp /home/user/music/*.mp3
>>root@192.168.2.161:/mnt/LaptopBackup/user/music/
>>
>>and all of the *.mp3's copy over.
>>
>>that would be fine if I had all of my *.mp3 files in one big directory
>>but i don't
>>
>>in /music i have more directories for each band..
>>
>>i would just like to copy an entire directory with all of it's sub
>>directories.
>>
>>
>
>Get rid of the "/*.mp3" and just scp -rp the entire /home/user/music
>directory (assuming that is okay).
>
>You may want to use rsync if you will be repeating this.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>
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