Is there something wrong with this command?

       [root@box9 simple]# scp -r  bobg@box8:/home/bobg/
       /run/media/bobg/Simple/Box8BkU

   I would like to copy the contents [roughly 44G per du -h] of
   /home/bobg/ on box8 to an external USB 500G hard drive. The problem
   is that it appears to be trying to keep recopying the files until
   the 500 gigs is reached. I let it run until the end yesterday and it
   quit protesting it had run out of space.

   I thought I had made an error entering the command and started again
   from scratch [after rm -fr] but it looks like it was doing the same
   thing now and I stopped it. Watching the screen I can see it is
   recopying the same files, du -h shows 228G on the external drive and
   it was still going when I stopped it. The source drive shows 44G ...

   What am I doing wrong?

   Bob

-- http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD

   box7

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