When you use user@server without a ‘:’ character, scp interprets user@server as the file name on the local machine to which you would like to copy your file. So, you should find a file (or in this case a directory) called user@server in the directory from which you issued the scp -r local_folder user@server command.
Looks like you are trying to copy to a local machine with that command. An example scp looks more like the command below: Copy the file “foobar.txt” from the local host to a remote host $ scp foobar.txt your_username@remotehost.edu:/some/remote/directory scp “the_file” your_username@the_remote_host:the/path/to/the/directory to send a directory: Copy the directory “foo” from the local host to … Read more
Make sure the scp command is available on both sides – both on the client and on the server. If this is Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux and clones (CentOS), make sure this package is installed: yum -y install openssh-clients If you work with Debian or Ubuntu and clones, install this package: apt-get install … Read more
TLDR: use synchronize instead of copy. Here’s the copy command I’m using: – copy: src=testdata dest=/tmp/testdata/ As a guess, I assume the sync operations are slow. The files module documentation implies this too: The “copy” module recursively copy facility does not scale to lots (>hundreds) of files. For alternative, see synchronize module, which is a … Read more
I knew that it was possible, I just took wrong tool. I did it with rsync rsync –progress -avhe ssh /usr/local/ XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/BackUp/usr/local/
I don’t know of any way to copy the file directly in one single command, but if you can concede to running an SSH instance in the background to just keep a port forwarding tunnel open, then you could copy the file in one command. Like this: # First, open the tunnel ssh -L 1234:remote2:22 … Read more