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Quickly Copy Large Directory Tree Via SSH (See related posts)

To copy the entire directory tree at /some/path to other.host via SSH...

find /some/path -print | sort | cpio -o -Hnewc | ssh -C other.host "cpio -idvum"


Make sure you use an absolute path to the directory tree. Existing files on the destination host will be overwritten unconditionally.
to unix ssh shell cpio by AGWA on Sat Jul 30 02:34:07 -0400 2005

Comments on this post

procreate posts on Oct 21, 2005 at 03:19
If you just want to copy a tree you can use: scp -r /top/of/tree my_login@other.host:/location (or location)
AGWA posts on Dec 04, 2005 at 22:58
True, but only if you have regular files in the directory. scp doesn't play nice with special files like symlinks, hard links, FIFOs, and devices. cpio is guaranteed to preserve those.

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