sftp Vs scp

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 24 07:41, Josh Soref wrote:
> Would rsync qualify as an scp replacement? It supports resumes via --partial

For me it's a muscle memory thingy.  Before even thinking of using
sftp or rsync, my fingers already typed `scp -rp '.


Corinna



> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 7:29 AM Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 24 03:47, Malcolm wrote:
> > > Quoting Chris High <highc at us.ibm.com>:
> > >
> > > > caught my eye.  Do you see any 'advantage' to using sftp with an
> > untrusted
> > > > server?  If so, any thoughts about making an easy way to disable scp
> > both
> > > > client and server side when doing an installation?
> > >
> > > SFTP allows file resume, while scp does not. If this isn't the case, I'm
> > > welcome to be corrected.
> > >
> > > scp's command line interface is intuitive and reasonably sensible,
> > especially
> > > as a follow-on to ncftp/friends like interfaces, a la
> > local->remote/remote-local.
> > >
> > > Problem is, scp doesn't let you resume interrupting up/downloads.  So we
> > have
> > > to use the nasty/non-CLI-friendly sftp thing, which doesn't (seem) to
> > support
> > > fairly straightforward mechanisms (user at hostname:/file/pathname/object
> > <->
> > > local object sort of stuff.
> > >
> > > There are too many arbitrary "issues" between the sftp/scp/ftps
> > > implementations to sort for end-users for them to pick outside of which
> > one
> > > "gets the job done".
> > >
> > > I wish there was a way for either sftp to get scp-like interfaces, or
> > scp to
> > > get all of the functionality of sftp, so the 'other' can die the
> > ignominious
> > > death it deserves.
> >
> > What's missing in sftp is a drop in replacement mode for copying to
> > the remote server, i.e. this should work out of the box:
> >
> >   $ sftp -rp local_dir server:path
> >
> > But, alas:
> >
> >   ssh: Could not resolve hostname local_dir: Name or service not known
> >
> > If sftp had this mode, I would alias scp=sftp and be done with it.
> >
> >
> > Corinna
> >
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Corinna Vinschen
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