ssh-copy-id prompted, give the password for your_user. If you decide to skip this section then you'll have to enter the remote user's password in every command.Īssuming that the public-private key pair on server_a is located in ~/.ssh/id_rsa, you can run the following command to transfer your public key to server_b. The generation of the public-private key is described in How Do I Generate SSH Keys?. Transferring files is possible using username and password authentication, but it's much safer to use SSH keys. SSH connectivity should be possible between both instancesĪ user which is not root (we'll call it your_user)

Two instances (we'll call them server_a and server_b) with private networking enabledīoth instances should have private IP addresses configured in the same subnet (see Configuring Private Network) If you have have two instances with private networking enabled you can also transfer these files over the private network and prevent extra charges for the used bandwidth.

When using commands like scp or rsync with the public IP address of your server, you will automatically transfer the files over the (public) internet.

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