SCP

Prerequisites

• SSH Client is installed on local machine

• SSH Server is installed on remote machine

Hint

If the remote system name is unknown, you may also use its IP address.

Copy files from remote server to local drive

$ scp <remote_username>@<remote_machine_name>:</remote/source/file> </local/target/directory/>

Example:

$ scp root@AECG111416:/tmp/test.txt /home/arnewohletz/docs/

Copy files from local drive to remote server

$ scp </local/source/file> <remote_username>@<remote_machine_name>:</remote/target/directory>

Example:

$ scp /home/arnewohletz/docs/test_local.txt root@AECG111416:/tmp/

Hint

Alternatively, you can use SFTP to copy files from and to a remote target. The basic copy command is analog to SCP. Simply exchange scp with sftp.