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On Tuesday 07 September 2004 20:43, Grant wrote:
> What would be the best way to move files stored on my remote server to
> my local machine on my home network? I know scp could move something
> from here to there, but what about the other way around?

You can copy files both ways with scp.

scp user@remote:rfile lfile
scp lfile user@remote:rfile

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> I know scp could move something
> from here to there, but what about the other way around?

Just swap the arguments around so that your machine becomes the
destination and the remote machine is the host. Other than that you
can use the same switches (-r, -C etc.) as you would for copying the
other way.

Paul

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On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:59:53PM +0000, Paul Waring wrote:
> > I know scp could move something
> > from here to there, but what about the other way around?
>
> Just swap the arguments around so that your machine becomes the
> destination and the remote machine is the host. Other than that you
> can use the same switches (-r, -C etc.) as you would for copying the
> other way.

If you're using scp to keep files on the two machines in sync, there's always
the danger that you'll scp the wrong way round and over-write the new version
with the old.

For synchronizing files, I highly recommend unison (it's in portage). It works
over ssh, uses the rsync protocol to determine when files have changed and
which one is newer, and to save bandwidth by only transferring differences,
and is extremely easy to use.

Toby
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Looks nice. I'll have to try it out.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Toby Cubitt wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:59:53PM +0000, Paul Waring wrote:
>>> I know scp could move something
>>> from here to there, but what about the other way around?
>>
>
> For synchronizing files, I highly recommend unison (it's in portage). It works
> over ssh, uses the rsync protocol to determine when files have changed and
> which one is newer, and to save bandwidth by only transferring differences,
> and is extremely easy to use.
>
> Toby
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> Quantum Information Theory group
> Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
> Garching, Germany
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> email: toby@dr-qubit.org
> web: www.dr-qubit.org
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Quoting Grant (emailgrant@gmail.com):
> What would be the best way to move files stored on my remote server to
> my local machine on my home network? I know scp could move something
> from here to there, but what about the other way around?

scp works both way.

scp outthere:file.txt file.txt

or

scp file.txt outthere:file.txt

Ciao,
...David

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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:10:19 -0400, David Lebel <lebel@lebel.org> wrote:
>
>
> Quoting Grant (emailgrant@gmail.com):
> > What would be the best way to move files stored on my remote server to
> > my local machine on my home network? I know scp could move something
> > from here to there, but what about the other way around?
>
> scp works both way.
>
> scp outthere:file.txt file.txt
>
> or
>
> scp file.txt outthere:file.txt
>
> Ciao,
> ...David

Worked perfectly. Thanks.

- Grant

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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:45:58 +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote:

> For synchronizing files, I highly recommend unison (it's in portage).
> It works over ssh, uses the rsync protocol to determine when files
> have changed and which one is newer, and to save bandwidth by only
> transferring differences, and is extremely easy to use.

I used to use Unison and found it excellent. Unfortunately, I can't get
it to work on amd64. Has anyone managed this?


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