Hi Try rsync. It has automatical differencial algorithm for avoiding transfer duplicated data.
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 08:57 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > All, > > I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on > FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files. > But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cannot ask it to > continue by omitting the ones it has already copied. For example in the > standard cp command, i can give a '-i' option to interactively ask if > the command is going to overwrite a file already present. Why is this > option not present in scp ? > > PS: I did a workaround by setting the already copied files as r-------- > which helps by not allowing scp to overwrite the file, but just curious > if there is any other proper method to do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]