Recover data over the network

[Michael Torrie]

On 10/09/2015 09:44 PM, William Ray Wing wrote:
> I hesitate to mention this, but there _may_ be a communication
> problem here. When American-English speakers refer to data recovery,
> they usually are discussing reading data from a disk that has
> suffered some catastrophic event, say a head crash or an inadvertent
> wholesale data deletion. In either case physical access to the
> hardware is assumed (and required). Based on what you've said so far,
> you don't have physical access, the disk (SSD) is operating normally,
> and you simply want remote read access to the /home directory tree.
> Is this correct?  If the answer is yes, then the discussion will head
> off in an entirely different direction.

Good point.  rsync over ssh is his answer.  That's what it was designed
for.  And maybe a bit of bash scripting. I don't see Python as a good
fit for this task.