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eddyP23
Asked: 2016-04-16 09:55:44 +0800 CST

pscp fails to copy wil failure 'unable to open'

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I am trying to overwrite some directories with content in them on a remote location using pscp to a remote location. I use root user (root@locationServerName). It succeeds in most of them, but fails in some of them returning $? = 1.

The output of the command looks like that:

Sending file filename1.txt, size=2990
filename1.txt             |          2 kB |   2.9 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%
Sending file filename2.txt, size=2665135
filename2.txt: unable to open /path/to/file/location/filename2.txt: failure
Sending file filename3.txt, size=2990
filename3.txt             |          2 kB |   2.9 kB/s | ETA: 00:00:00 | 100%

It looks like for some reason it can't overwrite the files, but I can't figure why or how could I fix it. Running it in verbose mode, doesn't say anything helpful. If I delete the files manually on the target location, then the operation succeeds.

Any ideas?

copying centos6.5

2 Answers

  1. I have been told this is the solution to that problem, at least to the same unable to open...failure error.

    You have to quote the unix-style path:

    pscp.exe -r C:\data user@server:"/home/user/path/"
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  2. I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why I was getting the error

    pscp: unable to open /tmp/filename: failure

    Turns out I was out of disk space...

    Check disk space with

    df -h
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