Secure Copy or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts. It is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.

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FTP giving less uploading speed compare to SCP

If I upload file using SCP then I get uploading speed up to 1.5 MB/s scp filename root@SERVER_IP:/path/to/store/ and If I use FTP to upload same file on same server then I get uploading speed up ...
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Linux SCP File transfer No space left on device?

I am trying to transfer one zip file from a linux based machine to a Windows based using SCP. I can go through the transfer ok but when it completes it says "No space left on device". The ...
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Priority for HTTP over SSH

My file server (Ubuntu) on the internet runs OpenSSH, where users upload and download files using scp or WinSCP. At the same time, the server runs some web applications (http), which need higher ...
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ssh login successful, but scp password gives me “Permission denied”

I'm trying to get some blogging software up on an organizational remote server. I tried to set up a SSH Key but was having problems and decided that getting the blog up and running was more important ...
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“Unable to get term attr: Invalid argument” while trying to SCP

I have to set up two LDAP servers for replication. My problem is that when i want to copy the master-slapd's database files with scp command i get the next message after typing in the account's ...
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can not connect through SCP, but SSH connections works

i am trying to connect to my server to transfer file using scp: $ scp -v -r -P <port> <user>@<host>:~/dir/ dir/ this is the output: OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 ...
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Solaris 10 very slow ssh file transfers

Trying to copy a few TBs betweek Solaris 10 u9 systems A single scp only seems to be able to transfer around 120MB/min, over a 1GB network. If I run multiple scp copies, each one will do 120MB/min, ...
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OpenSSH scp restrictions a-la gitolite

Does anyone know of some software that would allow to restrict/tune the scp experience on a single unix user, based on SSH keys? Similar to what gitolite does, or more flexible what rssh can do, but ...
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Trouble connecting to a local machine through a remote server

I'm trying to scp something to my local machine from a remote server. At first, scp complained that there was no route to host through port 22, but then I forwarded that port on my router. Now, I try ...
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Cygwin Scp or Rsync permissions

Why is it that whenever I Scp or Rsync files from my Windows machine using cygwin to my Ubuntu server. The copied files will all have no permissions. Rsync doesn't even work because it cannot copy ...
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scp/sftp backup script

I'm looking for a simple backup solution. My hoster has provided some backup space on remote server over scp/sftp. They have supplied me a username and a password. The option of auth with a RSA/DSA ...
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Bandwidth throttle with duplicity

As I've read, bandwidth throttling in duplicity is only available when using SCP backend. So I've tried following command: duplicity full --volsize 1024 --ssh-askpass --scp-command='scp' /etc ...
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Torque PBS Errors on Node “sys_copy, command '/usr/bin/scp -rpB /var/spool/pbs/spool/169104.davidbook.ER david@DavidBook://Test.e169104'”

and thank you for any help with this problem. I will find some questions I can answer well to pay the community back either way. I keep getting the following error on my test cluster syslog: May 20 ...
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Torque: Unable to copy output and error files to the submission dir

I'm using torque-mom-3.0.3 on Fedora 16. I'm completely newbie about of torque and I'm testing a pbs_server on a virtual machine an a pbs_client on the host. pbs_mom complains as follows on node ...
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scp in for loop for installing printers — connection refused

I could've sworn I was able to setup printers by: setup first host with lpadmin setup additional hosts with for loop: wherein stop cups copy printers.conf over start cups for host in ...
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scp issue between Virtual Machine host over VPN

I have a issue copying the file using scp between two hosts over VPN. One host is Ubuntu Linux Server(v9.10) which is a physical machine, and another is also Ubuntu Linux Server but which is virtual ...
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scp on debian throws 'command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: PermitLocalCommand'

I am doing simple scp on debian and it throws following errors. "command-line: line 0: Bad configuration option: PermitLocalCommand". Checked PermitLocalCommand in ssh_config and ssd_config. It's ...
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scp from local computer to aws ec2: asks for password

I've followed the info on this aws docs page, but it just asks for a password. Using: scp -i /Users/xxxx/xxxx/xxxx/key.pem myfile.txt ...