On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 12:51 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > mcclnx mcc wrote: > > We have CENTOS 5.3 on DELL servers. I tried to us following command to copy remote files system to local: > > > > scp -rp oracle at ORA2:/home/app/oracle/10.2 . > > > > After SCP finish copy, I found some files on source file system using "link" but on target file systems it change to "physical file". > > > > Does there has way scp not change "link" setup? > > I've always preferred 'rsync -essh -aHv source host:path' over scp for > remote copies. It will generally get everything right and in the case > where part of the content is already there it is much more efficient. > I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do not find an option -H. What is it? Cheers! CentOS 5.4, Linux 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 x86_64 14:18:18 up 2 days, 20:25, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.14, 0.19