[Novalug] scp double failure

[jecottrell3 at comcast.net]

[1] try scp -v to get verbose info
[2] I would use "." where you use "*"
[3] I would use rsync instead of scp

"Note that scp -r follows symlinks", which is definitely WRONG behavior.

JIM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beartooth" <beartooth at Beartooth.Info>
To: "Novalug" <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 6:11:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [Novalug] scp double failure


 	While Jo is out of town for a couple days, I want to back 
up her home directory from Msgv2 at 192.168.1.104 to the one on 
BBB at 192.168.1.105 -- but it fails :

[tslg at BBB ~]$ scp -r 192.168.0.4:/home/tslg/* home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out
[tslg at BBB ~]$ scp -r 192.168.0.4:/home/tslg/* home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out
[tslg at BBB ~]$ scp -r 192.168.0.4:/home/tslg/* home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out
[tslg at BBB ~]$ scp -r 192.168.0.4:/home/tslg/* home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out

 	So I tried a trick I have sometimes seen work : ssh'd in, 
and tried to do it from the other end. That fails, too :

[tslg at Msgv2 ~]$ scp -r /home/tslg/* 192.168.0.4:home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out
lost connection
[tslg at Msgv2 ~]$ scp -r /home/tslg/* 192.168.0.4:home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out
lost connection
[tslg at Msgv2 ~]$ scp -r /home/tslg/* 192.168.0.4:home/tslg
ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.4 port 22: Connection timed out
lost connection

 	In general, of recent months, I've been seeing scp fail a 
lot more than ssh. What's wrong??

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.

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