I am trying to copy a directory and everything in it from one server to another.

No matter what I type into SCP, it just gives me back:

usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
[-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]

I tried:

scp -r -P 1133 root@XX.XX.XX.XX:/home/images

Shouldn't that recursively copy /home/images from the server XX.XX.XX.XX through SSH on port 1133?

Btw - I know you can do it with a tar or just a regular FTP program. The folder I am trying to copy is 40 gig, there isn't enough free space to make a tar (if the server would even do it)

There are no spaces in that. So you're combining your source and destination into one, and since you didn't give scp both a source and a destination, it doesn't know what you mean and prints a usage summary at you.

I can't tell from your wording what you want to do. Try something like (on the source server)where /foo/bar is the folder you want it to go on z.z.z.z.

Somewhat better. Except now I get:

reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for XX.XX.XX.XX.static.dimenoc.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
root@XX.XX.XX.XX's password: (I type the password)
stdin: is not a tty

Any ideas?

Is there any way I can enter the password as part of the first command? Don't really care if it is secure or not at this point.

Guess I'll just run Filezilla for 6 days =/

The "stdin: is not a tty" is because you have something in your .*profile or .*rc on the remote machine has a statement that requires a tty (for an interactive login) but SCP is non-interactive. Find the offending statements and comment them out or add if logic so they only run when the shell is interactive.

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

That's what Google said, but I'm not sure how to find the tty line (or what I'm looking for)

I changed /etc/bashrc:

LS_OPTIONS='--color=tty -F -a -b -T 0';

to

LS_OPTIONS='--color=-F -a -b -T 0';

And rebooted, but it still gives me the same message.