Posted on Wednesday 18th April 2018
“Secure Copy Protocol. The SCP is a network protocol, based on the BSD RCP protocol, which supports file transfers between hosts on a network. SCP uses Secure Shell (SSH) for data transfer and uses the same mechanisms for authentication, thereby ensuring the authenticity and confidentiality of the data in transit.” Wikipedia
scp source destinationTransfer a file from the /var/www directory of the server to my home directory.
scp chris-shaw.com:/var/www/file.txt ~/file.txtTransfer a file from my home directory to the /var/www directory of the server.
scp ~/file.txt chris-shaw.com:/var/www/file.txtWhen transferring large files or lots of files, look into using compressions with tar.gz, see https://www.chris-shaw.com/blog/compressing-a-directory-on-linux