Copy files from Solaris to redhat via SCP command run on RedHat console

Question

I have to copy several GB of little files (from few bytes to < 1MB).

These files resides on a file system of a Solaris system.

No rsync and rdiff software is available on Solaris and cannot be installed.

The question is which command can be used to do it and how?

I need to issue the command several times, avoiding to copy already existing files on destination (RedHat) and possibly remove files/directories not existing anymore on the source since last execution (differential copy).

Answer 1

If SSH is installed on Solaris and you can access the system via SSH then you could `scp like this from the RedHat destination:

scp -rp solaris_user@solaris_host:/path/to/files/* /redhat/destination/path/

Answer 2

No rsync and rdiff software is available on Solaris and cannot be installed.

Arhh. C'mon. It ain't that difficult:

pkg install network/rsync

But then again, afaik, rsync is part of the default install of Solaris since 2005 (Solaris 10) so you shouldn't need to install it.

But maybe you are on a system that hasn't been touched in the last 10-15 years? (which sometimes, in Solaris world, isn't unusual)