Centos – How to SCP entire directory but exclude a directory

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I want to SCP an entire directory over to my new server, but exclude the thumbs/ directory inside /storage.

i want to scp over (and everything inside it, and all directories):
/storage

but exclude:
/storage/thumbs

thank you

Best Answer

Use rsync: rsync -av --exclude thumbs /storage dest

Rsync uses secure copy.

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Ssh – How to do Multihop SCP transfers between machines

You can add -o options to scp instead of .ssh/config.

scp -o ProxyCommand="ssh $jump_host nc $host 22" $local_path $host:$destination_path

$jump_host is your "server B" in this case.

Bash – Variable directory names over SCP

Run a similar version of the earlier script on the source server using cron, where it archives and encrypts all the files to a directory. At an appropriate interval following that, have a cron on the target server rsync over SSH that location. You could scp but rsync has many advantages.

Otherwise, I'd scrap your requirements and run an on-demand hybrid solution from the target using SSH pipes.

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