SFTP and SCP¶

These standard utilities are available for local area transfers of small files. They are not recommended for use with large data transfers due to poor performance and excess resource utilization on the login nodes.

See Globus for performing large data transfers.

scp: Examples¶

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• Copy a local file to a remote host:

  scp path/to/local_file remote_host:path/to/remote_file
  

• Use a specific port when connecting to the remote host:

  scp -P port path/to/local_file remote_host:path/to/remote_file
  

• Copy a file from a remote host to a local directory:

  scp remote_host:path/to/remote_file path/to/local_directory
  

• Recursively copy the contents of a directory from a remote host to a local directory:

  scp -r remote_host:path/to/remote_directory path/to/local_directory
  

• Copy a file between two remote hosts transferring through the local host:

  scp -3 host1:path/to/remote_file host2:path/to/remote_directory
  

• Use a specific username when connecting to the remote host:

  scp path/to/local_file remote_username@remote_host:path/to/remote_directory
  

• Use a specific SSH private key for authentication with the remote host:

  scp -i ~/.ssh/private_key path/to/local_file remote_host:path/to/remote_file
  

• Use a specific proxy when connecting to the remote host:

  scp -J proxy_username@proxy_host path/to/local_file remote_host:path/to/remote_file