By efiminzer
I want to upload a large file so I want to do so from the droplet’s console. The file is on my compouter. How do I do that?
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Running a command on your local computer to upload files to your server is pretty easy on macOS or Linux where you can use scp:
scp -r /path/to/my/files root@:0.0.0.0:/path/on/my/server
or rsync
rsync -avz /path/to/my/files root@:0.0.0.0:/path/on/my/server
While there are versions of rsync and scp/sftp available for windows they are not installed by default and getting started with a GUI client like Filezilla might be an easier way to go.
Thank you both for your answers. I ended up transferring the file through FTP.
This tutorial helped me a lot! As I already had Putty installed I use pageant to insert my passphrase. I t was very very easy! There goes the link:
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