oh! i tried something similar, but i was leaving the trailing / on there. and was getting file not found, so i switched to *.mp3 and it worked. but now it really works thanks. Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mike Hoy wrote: > > > >>scp -rp /home/user/music/*.mp3 >>root@192.168.2.161:/mnt/LaptopBackup/user/music/ >> >>and all of the *.mp3's copy over. >> >>that would be fine if I had all of my *.mp3 files in one big directory >>but i don't >> >>in /music i have more directories for each band.. >> >>i would just like to copy an entire directory with all of it's sub >>directories. >> >> > >Get rid of the "/*.mp3" and just scp -rp the entire /home/user/music >directory (assuming that is okay). > >You may want to use rsync if you will be repeating this. > > Jeremy C. Reed > > BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links > http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ > >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss