[SSH] Transfering files between servers

SCP, or secure copy, is used in linux to copy files from one loaction to another securly. Using the key of the other server we can connect the two using scp and send(copy) files. A password can be used but most of the times a key file is used to determine its validity.

This file transfer was used to transfer a file crawled in a AWS EC2 server to another server.

 

Copy a file to another server

scp -i key_folder/key_name transfer_file_folder/transfer_file username@server_ip:destination_folder

Copy a folder to another server

scp -i key_folder/key_name -r transfer_file_folder username@server_ip:destination_folder