Salman Chawhan

Simple scp command you can user to copy files one server from another server

1St go to directory which you need to copy ex: you need to copy /etc/copyfoldername

cd /etc/copyfoldername

than run bellow command

After command run it will ask root user password enter root user password than hit Enter

Ex: scp -r * root@Ip_Address:/var/foldername

Ex: scp -r * root@192.168.1.1:/var/foldername

After that it will ask you to enter root password for 192.168.1.1

• Root –> User name
• :/Folder path where to past

if SSH port is different run the command with -P port

Ex: scp -P port * root@192.168.1.1:/foldername

• * –> copy all files under folder if you want to copy single file use bellow command

Ex: scp -P port copyfilename.txt root@192.168.1.1:/foldername

• -P – Specifies the remote host ssh port.
• -q – Use this option if you want to suppress the progress meter and non-error messages.
• -C – This option forces scp to compresses the data as it is sent to the destination machine.
• -r – This option tells scp to copy directories recursively

If your using different port for ssh and using key-file
run the bellow command on Source Server

scp -r -i /home/admin/filename.pem -P 22222 /folder or file path fromsource/* root@destination server Ip://folder or file path from destination server

-i –> destination server key .pem/.ppk file path
-p –> destination server ssh port