scp and symlinks

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:47:02AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote

> There is rsync over ssh, which is much faster at file transfers than
> scp, and handles symlinks beautifully, and only copies what is not
> already there.  rsync -a source host:destination should do it in
> general.  --progress, -v, --partial, --delete, and such are sometimes
> useful.  For bidirectional transfer unison does an even better job.

  Thanks.  I'll investigate rsync further.

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