[CentOS] Re: rsync arg list to long

Jim Perrin spake the following on 8/30/2007 8:56 AM:
> Please for the love of God fix how your client handles email threads.
> 
> On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was trying to do "rsync -a root at machine2:/somedirectory ."
>>
>> There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files.
>>
>> also tried "scp -r root at machine2:/somedirectory ." with the same result of too many files.
> 
> How many files are in the directory here? I've never run across this
> sort of thing acting on the directory and not the files themselves.
> 
> 
Nor have I, and I have copied entire machines over rsync.
Maybe an -av will give more detail.

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