Copying Files Using Scp Utility On Linux

Hi,
In this blog, we'll learn how to copy a remote server file using scp to another server/local system.

Requirments:
* You should have installed 'OpenSSH-server' on the target machine.
* machine should be on the same network

Steps:
-> To copy a single file ( let say '/home/sysAdmin/xyz.log' to target machine's home location with ip and user are '192.168.0.26' (in case of VPN network it'll be machine's VPN ip) and 'max' respectively)

[ when it's not required to specify credential file. ]

$ scp /home/sysAdmin/xyz.log [email protected]:~/

[ when it's not required to specify credential file. ]

$ scp -i <credential/pem_file> /home/sysAdmin/xyz.log [email protected]:~/

-> Now to copy an entire directory ( let say directory : /home/sysAdmin/tempDir )

[ when it's not required to specify credential file. ]

$ scp -r /home/sysAdmin/tempDir [email protected]:~/

[ when it's not required to specify credential file. ]

$ scp -i <credential/pem_file> -r /home/sysAdmin/tempDir [email protected]:~/

In the above steps, may be you'll be asked for target machine's password, please provide that.

That's all. I hope, this will be useful in  some way.

Thanks.