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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Maybe a stupid question. But if I use this function it is saying. Connection refused. I am using SSH. So don’t have a root password. Does anybody know how to run the sudo scp command between servers what that?
It’s pretty easy. You can use scp to transfer your files over ssh.
scp -r /path/to/my/files root@0.0.0.0:/path/on/remote/droplet
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.
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