Re: No soft-links for scp?

["Andrew McGlashan" <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>]

Hi,

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to softlink to files on a remote machine on my home network. It
> appears that scp does not support softlinks. Is there another way to
> do this?

Use rsync, it works very well and if you have a directory that may change 
over time, then the updates will be quicker than copying the tree again.

> Example:
> $ scp -sRp ety@192.168.0.351:/home/archive .

Similar example:
rsync -azvxH --delete -e "ssh -l -o -c arcfour" 
ety@192.168.0.351:/home/archive/ archive

Another way is to use tar as follows:
ssh ety@192.168.0.351 '(cd /home/archive/;tar cf -)' | tar xf -


Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP