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Thanks, one of those will do it!

I'm using rsync with the "-e ssh" option so of course it asks for a password using a prompt. Is there a way to tell a script to expect a prompt, wait for it, and give a password when it arrives?
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I'm trying to make this work, and it half works. Accounts with password hashes matching the old crypt(3) algorithm work just fine:

JUpfW/w6jo6aw

But accounts with longer password hashes...

Ok, that's even more awesome! I will definitely bookmark that and take a look once the new machine is up and running. Incremental backups would be wonderful.

wow, that's exactly what I want. I'm always trying to reinvent the wheel it seems

I installed rsync on my Debian box (the FreeBSD already had it) and then ran this from the BSD box:

rsync -r...

Ok, here's the problem. I need to copy about 200 GB from an old FreeBSD (5.2.1) server to a new Debian server. The old server's fastest port is the ethernet port. I set up an NFS server on the new...