Comments on: Transferring Files from Remote Server to Remote Server Using SCP

By: Johnny5

Johnny5 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:08:58 +0000

Daniel, are you transferring the file to a fat32 filesystem?

Morfy: nope sorry

By: Morfy

Morfy — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:07:01 +0000

When using -r (recursive) you can get for instance an entire folder with subcontent - BUT symbolic links are not transfered ; you get the file instead. IS there a way to avoid this?

By: BUGabundo

BUGabundo — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:48:58 +0000

also u can use scp -q
so it wont out put anything

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:16:48 +0000

i never get that error message, are you sure that you have enough disk space on the remote server?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:37:43 +0000

hi, I tried to use scp for copying file which size is 4.2 GB. it was stopped at 4G error: file size exceeded. is that any difference when you transfer it in background? fyi, both of my server using fedora core 4.

many thanks,

By: Markus

Markus — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:04:59 +0000

thanks for the additional info.

i tried that command above and it shows progress percentage, the transfer rate and remaining time to accomplish the transfer. i think that is enough info for knowing the progress.

By: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:44:48 +0000

You forgot to mention fg to make it running on foreground.

One thing i missed on scp is hash mark which will tell the progress of the overall process. Adding -v only adds verbose information about the files being added, but not the percentage