How to securely copy files from remote servers to your local system using SCP

Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) provides a safe and secure way to transfer your files from UniDatacenter servers to your local system. To have the SCP do all the copying for you, you need to run the following SCP command from your local system, the machine where you need all the files to be stored.

Before you run the following command, please keep in mind a few things. You need to know the exact path from where you want to copy all the files. To get the exact path, login to UniDatacenter servers, and get to the directory you want to copy. Then execute "pwd". This will give you the exact path of that directory. Copy the directory for further use.

To scp from the Unidatacenter server to your system, go to the specific folder where you want to copy all the files, then use the following command. Also don't forget to modify the command with the information provided to you from UniDatacenter.

scp username@login.uni-datacenter.com:/home/username/file_name -P XXXXX

Also note, earlier copied pwd is the directory you have to use here.

There are some other flags you can use along with the scp command as per your needs.

-P	Port number provided to you
-r	Recursively copy entire directories
-p	Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original files.

Please note you should not perform ssh before performing scp. You must execute the code from your system only.