[TriLUG] SCP & CP Weirdness

[David McDowell]

sorry I don't have an answer, but have you tried using rsync to see
what it does?


On 1/6/06, Mark Freeze <mfreeze at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am recovering data from a crashed windows drive formatted with ntfs.  I
> have the drive in an external enclosure and it is connected at
> /media/usbdisk.  There are all kinds of bad sectors and messed up files on
> this drive and I have been getting data from it for the past few days but I
> have run into a strange situation when copying files and I wanted to see if
> anyone had heard of this before...
>
> I've connected the external drive to my laptop and scp'd files over to my
> server and I've connected the drive straight to my server and just cp'd the
> files.  Everything seemed to be working until I tried to copy a large
> (~30GB) directory over. Unlike the other stuff I have copied from the drive
> this is a directory of directories of directories of files. The other things
> I copied had no subdir's.  I did scp -r to get all of the subdirectories but
> it only copied maybe 5 out of 60.  I thought it may have been because I was
> scp'ing over a wireless laptop connection and it might be timing out so I
> connected directly to the server and got the same result.  The strange part
> is that I can cd directly to these subdir's and cp the files manually.
>
> Does anyone have any idea why cp would only get some subdir's and not
> others?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
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