When you are moving your website to another server or maybe copying a file to a remote host, there are lot ways to do that. One of them is using “scp” or secure copy. scp is used for copying file from local to remote host securely. It uses ssh for data transfer and provides the same authentication and same level of security as ssh.
Copy a file from a remote host to the local host:
1 | scp username@remotehost.com: file .txt /path/local/directory |
Copy a file from the local host to a remote host:
1 | scp /path/local/directory username@remotehost.com: file .txt |
Copy a directory from local host to a remote host
1 | scp -r /path/local/directory username@remotehost.com: /path/remote/directory |
Copy a directory from remote host to a local host
1 | scp -r username@remotehost.com: /path/remote/directory /path/local/directory |
Copy a file from remote host 1 to remote host 2 (copy file between remote host)
1 | scp username@remotehost1.com: /path/remote/host1/file .txt username@remotehost2.com: /path/remote/host2/ |
Use blowfish cipher to encrypt the data being sent:
1 | scp -c blowfish /path/local/directory username@remotehost.com: file .txt |
Compress the file before send:
1 | scp -c blowfish -C /path/local/directory username@remotehost.com: file .txt |