Binarymist

I was having some trouble today copying a file (1.5GB .iso) from a notebook to a file server.
The notebook I was using was running Linux Ubuntu.
The server FreeBSD.
I was trying to copy this file using SMB/CIFS via Nautilus.
I tried several times, it failed each time.
Then I thought, what are you doing… drop to the command line.

scp to the rescue

The command I used:

From the directory on my local machine I was copying the file from

scp -P <MyPortNumberHere> MyFile.iso <MyUserName>@<MyServer>:/Path/To/Where/I/Want/MyFile/ToGo/MyFile.iso

This also took about half  the time to copy that SMB took, and SMB didn’t even complete. Not to mention the transfer is secure (SSH)

Some additional resources

http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/ssh-and-scp-howto-tips-tricks

http://amath.colorado.edu/computing/software/man/scp.html

Also don’t forget to check the man page out 😉

man scp

Tags: FreeBSD, Linux, scp, SMB/CIFS, SSH, Ubuntu

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