Re: SCP problem
Incoming from s. keeling:
> Incoming from Jule Slootbeek:
> >
> > I have a problem scp'ing to and from my school's computer science
> > department server. When i try to scp something all i get is the
> > timestamp. I'm not sure if the problem lies on my side or on they're and
> > [snip]
> > jule@dolphy:~$ scp -r -v
> > jslootbeek@babbage.clarku.edu:~/classes/cs215/projects classes/cs215
>
> "-r" is "Recursively copy entire directories."
>
> Are you sure ~/classes/cs215/projects exists? Is it a directory?
> Does ./cs215/projects exist?
!@#$ Does ./classes/cs215/projects exist?
> What happens when you try to scp a single file? I usually tar up the
> whole dir structure and scp the archive. Try that. At least it'll
> tell you whether scp works at all. If it does, then your syntax above
> is incorrect.
>
> On babbage:
>
> mkdir ~/archive
> tar czf ~/archive/projects.tgz ~classes/cs215/projects
>
> Then "scp jslootbeek@babbage.clarku.edu:~/archive/projects.tgz ."
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