Question
How to copy files from one server to another droplet
- Posted on December 2, 2014
Asked by synergies.unlimited
Hi,
I broke my website and now I am trying to spin a new droplet and copy the files from one droplet to another.
Can anyone let me know how I can do this?
Thanks a lot.
Mark
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It’s pretty easy. You can use scp to transfer your files over ssh.
Of course you will need to replace 0.0.0.0 with your new droplet’s IP and update the paths included above. This command would copy everything in /path/to/my/files to the directory /path/on/remote/droplet on the other droplet.
scp -P 2222 -r -i /path/to/my/openSSH/key /path/to/my/files root@0.0.0.0:/path/on/remote/droplet you need to specify key of your remote droplet. if needed use puttygen to convert your key to OpenSSH your openSSH key should not accessible by others. example: permission 0400.
Udana
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