SCP getting hang

Question

While executing the below code. the script gets hanged. /var/backups/archives/ contains about 3 files with around 5GB in size. It copies the first file and scripts hangs.

spawn scp -rp user@10.10.234.1:/var/backups/archives/ /var/backup
expect "user@10.10.234.1's password:"
send "password\n"
expect eof
if [catch wait] {
    puts "failed"
    exit 1
}
exit 0

Answer 1

I assume you'll see expect: timed out when you run your script with expect -d.

Insert set timeout 60 in a new line after send "password\n". Replace 60 with a number greater than the transfer time (in seconds) of all files.