We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL servers. I tried to us following command to copy remote files system to local:

scp -rp oracle@ORA2:/home/app/oracle/10.2 .

After SCP finish copy, I found some files on source file system using "link" but on target file systems it change to "physical file".

Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?

Thanks.

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mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL servers. I tried to us following command to copy remote files system to local:
>
> scp -rp oracle@ORA2:/home/app/oracle/10.2 .
>
> After SCP finish copy, I found some files on source file system using "link" but on target file systems it change to "physical file".
>
> Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?
>
If you want to preserve symlinks you probably want to use rsync instead
of scp.

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mcclnx mcc wrote:
> We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL servers. I tried to us following command to copy remote files system to local:
>
> scp -rp oracle@ORA2:/home/app/oracle/10.2 .
>
> After SCP finish copy, I found some files on source file system using "link" but on target file systems it change to "physical file".
>
> Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?

I've always preferred 'rsync -essh -aHv source hostath' over scp for
remote copies. It will generally get everything right and in the case
where part of the content is already there it is much more efficient.

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mcclnx mcc wrote:

> Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?

use rsync, not scp

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On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 12:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> mcclnx mcc wrote:
> > We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL servers. I tried to us following command to copy remote files system to local:
> >
> > scp -rp oracle@ORA2:/home/app/oracle/10.2 .
> >
> > After SCP finish copy, I found some files on source file system using "link" but on target file systems it change to "physical file".
> >
> > Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?
>
> I've always preferred 'rsync -essh -aHv source hostath' over scp for
> remote copies. It will generally get everything right and in the case
> where part of the content is already there it is much more efficient.
>
I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've
checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do
not find an option -H. What is it?

Cheers!

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b.j. mcclure wrote:

> I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've
> checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do
> not find an option -H. What is it?

Looks like

-H, --hard-links preserve hard links

In my experience hard links aren't very common, symlinks on the other
hand are very common, and probably the type of link you were
encountering.

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>>> Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?

>> I've always preferred 'rsync -essh -aHv *source hostath' over scp for
>> remote copies. *It will generally get everything right and in the case
>> where part of the content is already there it is much more efficient.

> I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've
> checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do
> not find an option -H. *What is it?

-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
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On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:25 -0800, nate wrote:
> b.j. mcclure wrote:
>
> > I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've
> > checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do
> > not find an option -H. What is it?
>
> Looks like
>
> -H, --hard-links preserve hard links
>
> In my experience hard links aren't very common, symlinks on the other
> hand are very common, and probably the type of link you were
> encountering.
>
> nate
>
Darn. I knew it was dumb. ;-/
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On Monday 21 December 2009, b.j. mcclure wrote:
...
> I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've
> checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do
> not find an option -H. What is it?

$ man rsync | grep "-H"
-a, --archive archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H)
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
want recursion and want to preserve almost everything (with -H
ply-linked files is expensive. You must separately specify -H.
-H, --hard-links

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Tom H wrote:
>>>> Does there has way scp not change "link" setup?
>
>>> I've always preferred 'rsync -essh -aHv source hostath' over scp for
>>> remote copies. It will generally get everything right and in the case
>>> where part of the content is already there it is much more efficient.
>
>> I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've
>> checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do
>> not find an option -H. What is it?
>
> -H, --hard-links preserve hard links

Most of the other options to create as exact a duplicate as possible are
bundled into the '-a' option. However, since there is no efficient way
to handle hardlink matching and recreation (it needs a brute-force inode
table lookup), it is left separate.

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