copy_files_local_to_cloud.md

Copy Files from Local Computer to Cloud Computer

• copy files from local computer to AWS, Paperspace, Google Cloud, etc
• copy files from cloud computer to local
• copy files from local computer to remote machine

Reference

fastai Forum thread

• Stack Overflow
• Stack Exchange

Defintion

scp = secure copy

General Syntax

scp -i "path to .pem file" "file to be copied from local machine" username@amazoninstance: 'destination folder to copy file on remote machine'

Examples

scp -r . ubuntu@107.22.140.44:~/data/camelhorse 

scp -i "path to .pem file" "file to be copied from local machine" username@amazoninstance: 'destination folder to copy file on remote machine'

scp -i .ssh/aws-key-fast-ai.pem 
ubuntu@ec2-35-165-244-148.us-west2.compute.amazonaws.com:~/nbs/Notebooks/Weights/Predictions/test_preds_rms.dat ~/test_preds_rms.dat