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Do not overwrite files when copying from one server to another

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on April 25, 2010 - 3:54pm
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If you are searching for a way to not overwrite files when copying files or directories recursively with scp, what you probably really want is rsync.

It will avoid copying files it does not need to copy, preserving existing files of the same name and path.

For example:

ben@ubuntu:~/code/data/drupal/sites/default/files$ rsync -av data.agaric.com:/sites/agaricdesign/www/sites/default/files/ .
receiving incremental file list
./
.htaccess
07-07 taking it all over.txt
...

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scp do not overwrite don't override preserve, do not replace files rsynch

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