How to Copy Files and Folder Between Unix (Ubuntu) Servers

Allen White

5 years ago

Really quick simple how to here, Techieshelp recently moved to a move Dro plet on Digital Ocean. As Techieshelp is based on wordpress then I needed to move the files on the old Droplet to the new server.

There are a couple of simple tings you need before you copy the files :

With that information we can then run the following command, we use the SCP command:

Source Folder
Destination Folder
Source Server IP
Source Server Root Account and Password

scp -r /folder1/Folder2/Myfiles root@X.X.X.X:/older1/Folder2/Myfiles

Simply replace the folder paths above and the IP address, you will be prompted to enter to root password.