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Send data between two droplets.

Posted June 25, 2014 7.1k views

I wish to transfer quite a bit of files from 1 droplet to another in the same region. Is there anything like ftp for ubuntu console?

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jt June 25, 2014
How To Use SFTP to Securely Transfer Files with a Remote Server
by Justin Ellingwood
SFTP is a secure way to transfer files between local and remote servers. Much more secure than FTP, this protocol uses an SSH tunnel to establish a connection and uses encryption to transfer files in an interactive session.
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asb June 25, 2014

Another option is rsync. It’s great for moving large amounts of data as it lets you do things like resume interrupted transfers and add compression on the fly.

How To Use Rsync to Sync Local and Remote Directories on a VPS
by Justin Ellingwood
Rsync is a simple tool for intelligently syncing local and remote directories. In this article we will explore the basic usage of this utility to copy files from directory to directory and from system to system.
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skyrocker January 29, 2015

can we use scp for the above case ??

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