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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Arg List too Long in SCP Post 302170663 by chris1234 on Tuesday 26th of February 2008 09:14:10 AM
Old 02-26-2008
Arg List too Long in SCP
Hey guys. I have a program written in which i am trying to get the files from one remote machine and transferring the files to another remote machine using SCP.

It works fine for 50 or 60 files but when the files grows to 250 then i get an error message stating "Arg list too long".

Code:
#scp -p -B ${SRC} $DEST

Let me know if you would like to see the full code. I know i can accomplish the same task using FTP but was wondering if theres a way to do it through SCP.

Thanks for all your help.
 

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BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)				       backup-manager-upload					  BACKUP-MANAGER-UPLOAD(8)

NAME

       backup-manager-upload - Multiprotocol uploader for backup-manager.

SYNOPSIS

       backup-manager-upload [options] date

DESCRIPTION

       backup-manager-upload will upload all the archives generated on the given date to the specified host with either ftp or scp.  It's also
       possible to use this program for uploading data to an Amazon S3 account.  Some metadates are available like "today" or "yesterday".

REQUIRED ARGS

       --mode=transfer-mode
	   Select the transfer mode to use : ftp, scp, or s3.

       --host=hostname1,hostname2,...,hostnameN
	   Select a list of remote hosts to connect to.

       --user=username
	   Select the user to use for connection.

OPTIONAL ARGS

       --password=password
	   Select the ftp user's password (only needed for ftp transfers).

       --key=path_to_private_key
	   Select the ssh private key file to use when opening the ssh session for scp transfer.  Obviously, this is only needed for scp transfer
	   mode.  If you don't specify a key file, the user's default private key will be used.

       --directory=directory
	   Select the location on the remote host where files will be uploaded.  Default is /backup/uploads.

       --bucket=bucket
	   Sets the bucket name for the Amazon S3 service backup into.

       --root=directory
	   Select the local directory where files are.	Default is /var/archives

       --gpg-recipient=gpg-recipient
	   Select the gpg public key for encryptiong the archives when uploading with the method ssh-gpg. This can be a short or long key id or a
	   descriptive name. The precise syntax is described in the gpg man page.

       --list
	   Just list the files to upload.

       --ftp-purge
	   Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.

       --s3-purge
	   Purge the remote directory before uploading files in FTP mode.

       --ssh-purge
	   Purge the remote directory before uploading files in SSH mode.

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ERROR CODES

       If something goes wrong during an upload, backup-manager-upload will exit with a non null value. In such a case every error messages are
       sent to STDERR.

       Here are the possible error codes:

       bad command line (wrong arguments) : 10
       FTP transfer failure : 20
       SCP transfer failure : 21
       S3 transfer failure : 22
       Unknown upload method: 23

SEE ALSO

       backup-manager(3)

AUTHORS

       Alexis Sukrieh - main code and design

       Brad Dixon - Amazon S3 upload method

       Jan Metzger - ssh-gpg upload method

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