How to copy files from remote machine (ubuntu) to local machine (windows)?

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I would like to know about two ways: scp and rsync and how exactly they are used to copy files.

I tried doing

scp ubuntu@ip-10-124-83-21:/home/* /home/ubuntu/crockonjs-2-hd.mov

but it didn't work. Using rsync, I get

rsync: mkstemp "/home/.crockonjs-2-hd.mov.V1x5F8" failed: Permission denied (13)

crockonjs-2-hd.mov is on my remote machine and I need to pull it down in home folder. I am using Cygwin under Windows, and it would be awesome if someone could tell me how to use these commands correctly.

user24454

Posted 2013-07-21T06:33:46.890

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On using rsync, I get rsync: mkstemp "/home/.crockonjs-2-hd.mov.V1x5F8" failed: Permission denied (13) – user24454 – 2013-07-21T07:01:08.000

Looks like you may have the paths on the remote and local machine messed up. Is ip-10-124-83-21 the remote machine, ubuntu the username there? Also, what is the path to that file on the remote machine? – lupincho – 2013-07-21T07:09:27.403

Are you sure /home/ubuntu exists on your machine? – slhck – 2013-07-21T08:56:14.107

Answers

To copy a file from a remote machine to the local one the commands are:

scp <remote-user>@<remote-machine>:<remote-path-to-file> <local-destination>

rsync <remote-user>@<remote-machine>:<remote-path-to-file> <local-destination>

Though I'd use scp for that. I can't tell what's what in your example, so that's as specific as I can get.

You can also always check the man pages with:

man scp

ahilsend

Posted 2013-07-21T06:33:46.890

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scp -i <path-to-public-key> <remote-user@remote machine>:<remote-path-to-file> <local-destination>

For example

scp -i Downloads/xyz.pem ubuntu@xyz.com:/home/ubuntu/sample.csv Desktop/

coder

Posted 2013-07-21T06:33:46.890

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