Copying files using rsync from remote server to local machine

Question

Once I ve ssh d into my remote server  what would the command be to copy all files from a directory to a local directory on my machine

User · Answer

I think it is better to copy files from your local computer, because if files number or file size is very big, copying process could be interrupted if your current ssh session would be lost (broken pipe or whatever).

If you have configured ssh key to connect to your remote server, you could use the following command:

rsync -avP -e "ssh -i /home/local_user/ssh/key_to_access_remote_server.pem" remote_user@remote_host.ip:/home/remote_user/file.gz /home/local_user/Downloads/

Where v option is --verbose, a option is --archive - archive mode, P option same as --partial - keep partially transferred files, e option is --rsh=COMMAND - specifying the remote shell to use.

rsync man page

User · Answer

From your local machine   rsync -chavzP --stats user remote host  path to copy  path to local storage   From your local machine with a non standard ssh port   rsync -chavzP -e  ssh -p  portNumber  user remote host  path to copy  local path   Or from the remote host  assuming you really want to work this way and your local machine is listening on SSH   rsync -chavzP --stats  path to copy user host remoted from  path to local storage   See man rsync for an explanation of my usual switches

User · Answer

If you have SSH access  you don t need to SSH first and then copy  just use Secure Copy  SCP  from the destination   scp user host  path file  localpath file   Wild card characters are supported  so  scp user host  path folder    localpath folder   will copy all of the remote files in that folder If copying more then one directory   note -r will copy all sub-folders and content too

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