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I want to copy a folder and all its contents of ~700GB from a computer to another. I've tried sudo scp -r directory/ admin@host:directory but the result is that the copied folder is about 2GBs smaller than the original.

I checked the shell for errors and found some "file doesn't exist" errors. So what to do?

I'm trying to copy from a OSX server 10.5.7 to OSX server 10.5.8

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I've listed the contents of the origina folder and the new one with sudo ls -R directory/>list.txt and compared them with MS Word's track changes command; some files differ, but they aren't certainly that big files.

scp is supposed to copy all the files as same size.


What is the type of files it is missing to copy ? Are you able to make out some information from the kind of file it is missing ?

You may also be interested in this question i have asked earlier: https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-ex...er-server.html

Just a quick few;
- do you definately have access to all of the files, with regards to permissions etc.
- If copying over a network, is it stable?

Alternatives may be Rsync or creating a tar stream?
A neat little guide on this can be found here; CrucialP - Copying across a network.