[plug] scp

[rennie]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:29:23 Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:14 +0900, rennie wrote:
> > Why would ...
> >
> > # scp -pr -P 13713 /home/rennie/ root at 10.1.1.8:/home/LaptopBackup
> >
> > ... create +100GB on from c.a. 10GB of data?
> >
> > Have I missed some thing?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Rennie
> > ________
>
> Copying a sparse file, maybe? Reference -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_files

I found it:

#ls -l /home/rennie/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/rennie/My\ Documents

lrwxrwxrwx 1 rennie users 12 2008-02-03\ 
15:02 /home/rennie/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/rennie/My\ 
Documents -> /home/rennie

So within my home directory is a link pointing to my _home_ directory ... 
which contains a link to my _home_ directory which .......

So my question now is: how do I avoid this in future while copying files - 
including hidden ones - from one PC to another on the network ... with 
minimal fuss and setup effort?


Cheers,

Rennie