ssh file transfer

[newbee]

I read somewhere that it is possible to transher files with the ssh protocol.
I don't know where I read this, but is this possible?

[sylvain]

Yes it is.

I use "scp user@remotehost:/path/to/file where/to/put/it"

scp comes with the ssh package. You can use sftp as well.

[jé]

you also can do :

scp path/to/file user@remote:where/to/put/it

you can use * and ? in filenames in order to copy several files at once!

[root04]

I use WinSCP on "Win - Linux" transfers.
http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/

[spork102]

WinSCP works great for one-time transfer. I use it all the time, and highly recomend it.

But if you are doing regular transfers, you may find another option useful. I use rsync (from Cygwin) to keep data on my linux server synced to a W2K box.

rsync $RSYNC_OPTIONS $SOURCE $DESTINATION

The full command I use it:
rsync -auvz --progress --partial --bwlimit=60 -e ssh --delete ./ user@linux.server:/home/user/active_files

What does this do?

$SOURCE = ./ (the source directory is the current directory on the computer I am running rsync on)

$RSYNC_OPTIONS
--delete DELETES files on the destination that do not appear on the source
-auvz (transfer All, Update [only transfer changed files], Verbose logging, use Zip compression)
--progress (show progress indicators)
--partial (keep partially transferred files so that they can be resumed later)
--bwlimit=60 (limit transfer to not more than 60kbps of bandwidth)
-e ssh (use ssh as the transport, tunneling the transfer through ssh)

$DESTINATION = user@linux.server:/home/user/active_files
there are three components to the destination in this example:
username (user)
server address (linux.server)
absolute path to the destination directory on the server (/home/user/active_files)

If you can log into a server with the command "ssh user@linux.server", then you probably already have the necessary server side software.

Client side, you will need rsync and ssh. I got these from Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com). There are other versions of rsync and ssh that you can use as well. Those packages are usually smaller and simplier. I just had much more success with the Cygwin packages.

[mzilikazi]

Or make your life easy and use mc! mc is not only is the best file manager ever created it also does ftp and ssh. Oh yeah! Simply fire up your favorite terminal, type mc (or mc -b if you don't like blue) cd /some/dircetory, hit 'Tab' to change panes, hit F9 and select "Shell link", enter username@i.p.add.re.ss, hit enter, give the password and voila! you're at the other box. No long scp commands to remember.

I never use ftp on my web server anymore to upload files or to send files to and from work, only ssh via mc. It's a beautiful (and secure) thing.

[lacek]

Well, I don't mean to flame, but mc has some nasty and annoying bugs. For example, upon uploading, it first copies the file to be uploaded to the /tmp directory, and _then_ it uploads it. Apart from unnecessarily flooding the hard disk and causing load with this, it also takes more time than a 'simple' ftp or ssh. With relatively small files, it is OK, but did you ever tried to upload a 600M file? :-)

[Guest]

it also takes more time than a 'simple' ftp or ssh. With relatively small files, it is OK, but did you ever tried to upload a 600M file?

Well I can't argue with you there. It isn't extremely fast but as you've guessed I don't transfer huge files (that would be too painful ) but rather documents and photos. What I really like is the fact that I don't need more ports open on my router. Have you experimented with lufs yet?

[tronx]

I read somewhere that it is possible to transher files with the ssh protocol.
I don't know where I read this, but is this possible?

yes, whit
sftp user@ip
u ll use the ssh protocol for transfer your files.

[miikkajo]

there is also gftp
its really good ftp client and it does sftp too