You could write a <remotefileset> selector if you would like. You are
probably not the first to have a need/desire for this functionality. The
Ant project is a great example of users filling their needs while
contributing to make the project better. I encourage you to participate.
Some would even call it fun :)
-Rob Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Reinhardt Christiansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:37 AM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Question about scp
I see. Well, it's nice to know that it wasn't a case of me being stupid.
It's a shame that it has to be that complicated to copy a tree from the
remote Linux machine to my PC but that's life, I suppose.
Thanks for the information.
--
Rhino
Anderson, Rob (Global Trade) wrote:
You need to use a nested fileset in your scp task. In order to do this
you would need to run ant on the host where the files reside. You
cannot
use a nested fileset as a source for the copy when they are on a
remote
host. I would setup cygwin sshd on the windows box and run ant on the
linux box.
-Rob Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Reinhardt Christiansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 7:15 AM
To: ant-user
Subject: Question about scp
I am successfully using the Ant (1.7.0) scp task in Ant 1.7.0 but I
have
some questions that don't seem to be answered in the documentation.
With respect to scp, is it possible to copy a whole directory tree
from
a local machine to a remote machine?
Let's say I have this directory tree on my remote (Linux) machine:
/home
/home/abc
/home/abc/css
/home/abc/images
/home/abc/images/thumbnails
/home/abc/images/thumbnails/new
/home/abc/images/fullsize
/home/abc/text
/home/abc/text/foo
/home/abc/text/foo/old
/home/abc/text/foo/new
/home/abc/text/bar
/home/abc/text/baz
Each directory contains files and most also contain subdirectories.
Now, I'd like to take a backup of this information on my local
(Windows)
machine. That backup should replicate the structure on the remote
machine, like this:
c:\backups\abc
c:\backups\abc\css
c:\backups\abc\images
c:\backups\abc\images\thumbnails
c:\backups\abc\images\thumbnails\new
c:\backups\abc\images\fullsize
c:\backups\abc\text
c:\backups\abc\text\foo
c:\backups\abc\text\foo\old
c:\backups\abc\text\foo\new
c:\backups\abc\text\bar
c:\backups\abc\text\baz
I'm finding that I can copy a partial directory tree from the remote
machine to the local machine without any trouble. For example, if I
want
to copy the /home/abc/images directory _and all of its subdirectories_
on the remote machine to the local machine, I can do it easily enough
via:
<scp
file="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${remote.root.dir}/images/*"
trust="true"
keyfile="${remote.keyfile}" passphrase="${passphrase}"
todir="${local.dir}/images"/>
However, when I try to copy a partial directory from the local machine
to the remote machine, it only ever copies the highest level directory
and won't recurse to the lower levels. For example, if I want to copy
c:\backups\abc\text to the remote machine, It only copies the
c:\backups\abc\text directory and never recurses down to any of the
subdirectories below c:\backups\abc\text.
I'm guessing that I just haven't written the scp instructions
correctly.
As is all too often the case, I'm finding that the examples in the Ant
manual for a given command either don't show you an example of what
you're trying to do or fail to explain it very well. In the case of
scp,
the examples that show copying directories from a local machine to a
remote machine don't indicate if they _can_ recurse, let alone how to
make it recurse if it is possible.
Is it possible to recurse through subdirectories when copying from a
directory on a local machine to a remote machine? If it is, could
someone please tell me what I'd need to write to copy
c:\backups\abc\text and all of its subdirectories to the remote
machine?
I've tried it every way I can think of but it never recurses.
--
Rhino
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