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This day, I was looking for a safe and fast way to copy large files between remote hosts. The solution was SCP (you can copy files across an ssh connection that will be encrypted, and therefore secured)
From Wikipedia: “Secure Copy or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local and a remote host or between two remote hosts, using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. The term SCP can refer to one of two related things, the SCP protocol or the SCP program.”
It was a great help because I could upload files from one host to another more quickly, to copy large quantities.
The Usage is for copying file to host:
scp SourceFile user@host:directory/TargetFile
And for copying file from host:
scp user@host:directory/SourceFile TargetFile