[TriLUG] SCP & CP Weirdness

[Carl Crider]

i agree, try rsync.

On 1/6/06, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Carl Crider