scp non-overwrite option

[Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>]

All,

  I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on
FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files.
But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cannot ask it to
continue by omitting the ones it has already copied. For example in the 
standard cp command, i can give a '-i' option to interactively ask if
the command is going to overwrite a file already present. Why is this
option not present in scp ? 

PS: I did a workaround by setting the already copied files as r--------
which helps by not allowing scp to overwrite the file, but just curious
if there is any other proper method to do this.
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Bhasker C V
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