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Re: scp alternative



On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:50:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> I've been using scp to copy the files from my production web server to my
> hosting companies web server. scp works well except that there is no way to
> prevent it coping files that already are up to date, and also, it requires a
> password every time.
> Is there a better alternative? My remote server does not allow rsync,
> although they say they will in the future.

you can use rsync over ssh, it requires nothing from the server except
a working sshd (which it obviously has)

rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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