@brandonc5e9f760d021b8bf3c5

Are you using password-based authentication or SSH Keys to login to the server?

Are you using a PC or Mac (OS X / MacOS)?

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If you're logging in from a Mac, then you'll need to specify the SSH Key when trying to transfer the files over.

i.e.

scp -r -i /path/to/private_key /local/path/to/files root@1.2.3.4:/path/on/droplet

-r specifies recursive transfer, meaning all files and directories.

-i specifies the private key file using a direct path to its location.

/local/path/to/files is the local path to the files to transfer

root@1.2.3.4:/path/on/droplet

Where root is the username of the user you're logging in as, 1.2.3.4 is the IP of your Droplet, and the /path/on/droplet is where the files should be uploaded.

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If you're not on a Mac, you can use PuTTy's pscp

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

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Alternatively, you could simply use SFTP. You can login as root to transfer files, though you'd most likely need to set permissions on the files as you really don't want files and directories for your app to be owned by root unless it's absolutely required for one reason or another.

Thanks @brandonc5e9f760d021b8bf3c5, that's a good explanation, but I'm still not being successful. I'm using:
scp -r ./VOCdevkit paperspace@xxx.xx.xx.xx:/home/paperspace/fastai/courses/dl2
where ./VOCdevkit is a local directory that I want to copy to a remote server (paperspace).

Does /path/to/private_key refer the a private key on paperspace or on my local machine. Thanks!

Any help on how to do this with a password from a mac? I'm getting no response from my mac terminal when I run the scp command.

It worked the other day without any special requirements for a password, but now it's just hanging. No errors or messages. Just hanging. I've confirmed my ubuntu droplet has internet connectivity by ssh'ing into it and running a ping command.

My command is simple:

scp /local/path/to/my/file.file root@:0.0.0.0:/path/to/my/droplet

I've tried to move files both ways with scp (droplet --> local mac as well as local mac --> droplet).

Thanks in advance.