Open Tech Notes

Copy files between two linux boxes

Both NFS and FTP can do this job well. However the linux scp command can do it even better. scp is part of the OpenSSH package. It is installed by default on CentOS.

Scp’s usage is similar with cp, it does not support anonymous downloads.For example:

scp -rv user@host:/path/to/source/* /path/to/destination/

will copy all files/subdirectories under /path/to/source/ to /path/to/desination/

Note: WinSCP is also a powerful tool. It can be download here.