Copying file using scp

scp is secure copy. That is you can copy file between servers over ssh connection.

scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
         [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
         [[user@]host1:]file1 [...] [[user@]host2:]file2

Example

scp file.extn user@remote-server-ip:/path/

For server with ssh on non default port, for eg: 3333

scp -P 3333 iberiaca_vshare.sql root@server54.hosthat.com:/root/

Speedup SCP file transfer

SCP uses encryption, and some ciphers are faster than others. You can specify a faster cipher like aes128-gcm@openssh.com:

cp -c aes128-gcm@openssh.com root@bak.serverok.in:cpmove-admin0121.tar.gz .

See rsync, Linux Commands

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