How do I copy a folder from remote to local using scp

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How do I copy a folder from remote to local host using scp   I use ssh to log in my server  Then  I would like to copy the remote folder foo to local  home user Desktop   How do I achieve this

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To use full power of scp you need to go through next steps    Public key authorisation Create ssh aliases   Then  for example if you have this    ssh config   Host test     User testuser     HostName test-site com     Port 22022  Host prod     User produser     HostName production-site com     Port 22022   you ll save yourself from password entry and simplify scp syntax like this   scp -r prod  path foo  home user Desktop     copy to local scp -r prod  path foo test  tmp              copy from remote prod to remote test   More over  you will be able to use remote path-completion   scp test  var log     press tab twice Display all 151 possibilities   y or n    Update   For enabling remote bash-completion you need to have bash-shell on both  lt source gt  and  lt target gt  hosts  and properly working bash-completion  For more information see related questions   How to enable autocompletion for remote paths when using scp  SCP filename tab completion

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And if you have one hell of a files to download from the remote location and if you don t much care about security  try changing the scp default encryption  Triple-DES  to something like  blowfish    This will reduce file copying time drastically   scp -c blowfish -r user your server example com  path to foo  home user Desktop

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What I always use is   scp -r username IP  path to server source folder          dot     it means current folder  so copy from server and paste here only   IP    can be an IP address like 125 55 41 311 or it can be host like ns1 mysite com

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Go to Files on your unity toolbar    Press Ctrl   l and write here goes your user name 192 168 10 123  The 192 168 1 103  is the host that you want to connect   The here one example

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The question was how to copy a folder from remote to local with scp command     scp -r userRemote remoteIp  path remoteDir  path localDir  But here is the better way for do it with sftp - SSH File Transfer Protocol  also Secure File Transfer Protocol  or SFTP  is a network protocol that provides file access  file transfer  and file management over any reliable data stream  wikipedia      sftp user remote remote ip  sftp gt  cd  path to remoteDir   sftp gt  get -r remoteDir  Fetching  path to remoteDir to localDir 100   398  0 4KB s   00 00  For help about sftp command just type help or

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I don t know why but I was had to use local folder before source server directive   to make it work   scp -r   root 888 888 888 888  usr share nginx www example org

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To copy all from Local Location to Remote Location  Upload   scp -r  path from destination username hostname  path to destination   To copy all from Remote Location to Local Location  Download   scp -r username hostname  path from destination  path to destination   Custom Port where xxxx is custom port number   scp -r -P xxxx username hostname  path from destination  path to destination   Copy on current directory from Remote to Local  scp -r username hostname  path from file     Help     -r Recursively copy all directories and files Always use full location from    Get full location by pwd scp will replace all existing files hostname will be hostname or IP address if custom port is needed  besides port 22  use -P portnumber    dot  - it means current working directory  So download copy from server and paste here only    Note  Sometimes the custom port will not work due to the port not being allowed in the firewall  so make sure that custom port is allowed in the firewall for incoming and outgoing connection

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Typical scenario   scp -r -P port username ip  path-to-folder      explained with an sample   scp -r -P 27000 abc 10 70 12 12  tmp hotel dump    where   port   27000 username    abc    remote server username path-to-folder   tmp hotel dump     current local directory

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Better to first compress catalog on remote server   tar czfP backup tar gz  path to catalog   Secondly  download from remote   scp user your server example com  path to backup tar gz     At the end  extract the files   tar -xzvf backup tar gz

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scp -r user your server example com  path to foo  home user Desktop   By not including the trailing     at the end of foo  you will copy the directory itself  including contents   rather than only the contents of the directory  From man scp  See online manual   -r Recursively copy entire directories

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In case you run into  Too many authentication failures   specify the exact SSH key you have added to your severs ssh server   scp -r -i  path to local key user remote tld  path to folder  your local target dir

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