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Also, rsync can create more faithful copies than scp. E.g. scp can't copy a symlink as a symlink, instead it will follow the symlink and copy the file or direc

Also, rsync can create more faithful copies than scp. E.g. scp can't copy a symlink as a symlink, instead it will follow the symlink and copy the file or directory.

FullyFunctional 5y ago
This is one of the main reasons I never use scp and always use rsync -a. IMO, seems a poor design of scp.