Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Aaron: >> I am not sure what you are doing ... > > Trying to learn rsync. To that end, I delved into rcp. I'm trying to > config things so that I can do something like 'rcp <file> <name of other > machine>:'. It seems rsync will be a lot easier to learn and use than rcp... you just need a working sshd on the other machine with port 22 open. Then rsync -av /path/on/local/box user@remoteip:/path/on/remote/box is all you need to copy the local contents of /path/on/local/box to /path/on/remote/box on the other machine. As a side issue, if it happens that some of the files are already there, they won't get sent again, speeding things up. Eg, rsync -av /home/fred root@xxxxxxxxxxxx:/backups/fred AFAIK rcp bulk transfer is not encrypted, whereas with rsync-over-ssh it will be. -Andy
