Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 September 2005 7:42 am, Ulrich Leopold wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am expieriencing a strange problem when using the secure copy command
> 'scp'. I use the following command:
>
> ~> scp -rp 10.3.10.8:/home/uleopold/ .
>
> The directory to copy has a size of 14GB. The starnge things is that it
> does not stop copying when all files have been transfered but it starts
> again and hence the directory on the new host grows constantly. Once I
> ended up with a size of 61GB instead of 14GB.
>
> I tried to start scp from both machines and transferred it always to the
> same machine. I do not know how this can happen. I also tried a smaller
> single directory. For that on eit worked without any problems. It seems
> as iff it followed a link and is following this link infinitely. ut I do
> not have any link in the home directory.
Then only thing I can think of is that /home/uleopold/ or possibly one of 
its subdirectories on the 10.3.10.8 system has some type of a problem, 
possibly a hard or symbolic link to self (other than .).

You might want to use the -v (verbose switch). Also, you might also want to 
log into the 10.3.10.8 system, and try using the local cp command:
cp -pr /home/uleopold/ /var/tmp
If cp exhibits the same behavior, I am sure that /home/uleopold tree has 
some problems.

Another possibility is to use rsync:
rsync -vaz -e ssh 10.3.10.8:/home/uleopold/ .

The -v flag should give you some additional information.

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