Re: No soft-links for scp?

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 2009-02-27_08:50:25, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Hey,
> > Ah, in that case then the `sshfs mount && cp -sR` idea is probably going
> > to work best.
> 
> Exactly what I wound up doing, and it works great. The read / write
> speed on the files is faster than with ssh through konqueror as well.
> 
> >??If you don't want to get sshfs running then you could
> > also try generating the links on the server side then using scp/rsync to
> > get them. ??Something like:
> > me@server $ cd /tmp/links && cp -sR /path/to/dir ./ && rsync -a
> > /tmp/links/ me@laptop:~/links/`hostname`
> >
> 
> I thought about doing that when I was reading the rsync manpage and I
> saw that the -l option preserves symlinks. I did not test it, though.

sshfs is not at all difficult to get running. I got it working almost
trivially. First I had to learn how to use ssh. Then sshfs got working
before I ever confronted scp. sshfs is the way to go, unless the goal
has not been fully explained.


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Paul E Condon           
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