December 19, 2009

scp - Secure copy of your content

scp is a great way to move files around from one machine to second machine.

This can take the place of an ftp server for moving files around.

From remote machine to local

root :~# scp user@xx.xx.xx.xx:/home/user/old-stuff /home/user/restore

From local machine to remote

root :~# scp home/to/file you@xx.xx.xx.xx:path/to/file

From remote to remote

root :~# scp user@xx.xx.xx.xx:path/to/file user@xx.xx.xx.xx:path/to/file

xx.xx.xx.xx == Your server IP

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