Moving Files between 2 remote servers (SCP?)

[phillips321]

Hi guys,

I have 2 remote servers sat locally on the same LAN as each other.

Both boxes are headless, ssh only, and neither have ftp, www, nfs or samba.

I need to move about 8Gb from one box onto the other, both can access each other via ssh, can i use scp to copy the files across?

I need to ensure the data is transfered perectly with no errors, it doesn't matter how long it takes.

Would any one know how to move this data?

I simply need to move from /home/user on box1 to /home/user on box2.

Cheers in advanmce

[hyper_ch]

I would use rsync over ssh.

[HermanAB]

You can open two windows in Konqueror or Nautilus, use sftp to connect to the two machines, then click-drag-drop files between them - super easy.

Don't try that with *******...

[koenn]

I would use rsync over ssh.

Last time I checked, you can not rsync between 2 remote systems.

[hyper_ch]

sure you can... if you can't do it directly then you'll first build a ssh connection to one server and issue the command from there...

[koenn]

sure you can... if you can't do it directly then you'll first build a ssh connection to one server and issue the command from there...

ah, OK, didn't quite understood that that is what you meant.
You'd have to do it that way; "rsync remote01:/path/ remote02:/path" wouldn't work.

[hyper_ch]

it would actually be great if you could directly do:

rsync remote1:/org remote2:/dest

[koenn]

it would actually be great if you could directly do:

rsync remote1:/org remote2:/dest

yeah.
I think the problem is you'd need to authenticate from remote1 to remote2

something like "ssh remote01 rsync /src remote2:/dest"
might work if you've set up host-based or public key authentication

[MartynA]

I see no reason why scp wouldn't work.

scp -p user1@host1:/home/user1 user2@host2:/home/user2

Or something similar anyway.

[koenn]

I see no reason why scp wouldn't work.

scp -p user1@host1:/home/user1 user2@host2:/home/user2

Or something similar anyway.

because host2 will request authentication from user1@host1 before creating a channel for scp, while scp is being run by user0@host0.

try it.