SSH comes with 2 applications for remote file transfer, namely scp
and sftp
. You can also use SSH to secure your rsync
session.
The easiest of these are scp
. The command is quite similar to cp
in copying local files except that you’ll have to specify the remote user and host in your command. For example,
scp myfile.txt [email protected]:/remote/folder/
will copy myfile.txt
from your local folder to /remote/folder
in 192.168.1.10
. remoteuser
need to exist and have write permission to /remote/folder/
in the remote system.
sftp
in the other hand works almost exactly like ftp
but with secure connection. Most of the commands are similar and can be used interchangeably. The following sftp
example will work exactly as ftp
would.
$ sftp [email protected] Connected to 192.168.1.10. sftp> dir file1 file2 file3 sftp> pwd Remote working directory: /home/user sftp> get file2 Fetching /home/user/file2 to file2 /home/user/file2 100% 3740KB 747.9KB/s 00:05 sftp> bye $
You can also use ssh
to secure your rsync
session. To do this, use –rsh=ssh
or -e “ssh”
with your normal rsync
commands. The following 2 commands will work exactly the same;
rsync -av --delete --rsh=ssh /path/to/source [email protected]:/remote/folder/ rsync -av --delete -e "ssh" /path/to/source [email protected]:/remote/folder/