SSH SFTP: transfer local directory to remote server

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I can't seem to transfer a simple local folder to a remote server via SFTP or SSH. I feel like the issue has to do with absolute paths or home directories, but here's what I've tried:

scp -r /Applications/MAMP/rest/of/path user@myserver.com:/remote/path
rsync -az --progress --stats -e ssh /Applications/MAMP/rest/of/path user@myserver.com:/remote/path

All I keep getting is a 'no such file or directory' in reference to the local path.. I dragged n dropped the local folder path into terminal, but while already logged into ssh – would that make any difference? last few hours stuck in a matrix..

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scp is plain and simple, if you have rsync, use it, its a lot smarter.

also, drop the -e ssh , as its the default.

i assume you already check the permissions for the correct users in boths sides, so i recommend you first CD the origin directory and run the rsync from there

cd /Applications/MAMP/rest/of/path 
ls -l     # to confirm you are on the right place
rsync -avz --progress --stats  . user@myserver.com:/remote/path

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You can use SSH tunneling for this.

Using tunneling you can forward a TCP port either from your local machine to the remote machine, or from the remote machine to your local machine. I use it frequently to forward e.g. SMTP or IMAP ports from a remote machine behind a firewall to my local machine (and then access the services locally, as if they were running locally).

To forward port 22 (SSH) from you local machine to the remote machine try this:

ssh -R12345:localhost:22 yourremoteuser@remotemachine

(Note that localhost refers to the local name of the remote machine)

After running this you should be able to ssh back home using:

ssh -p12345 yourlocaluser@127.0.0.1

When using scp, you would do something like (scp has an uppercase P for port forwarding):

scp -P12345 filename 127.0.0.1:/tmp/filename

Port forwarding in the other direction (from remote to local) uses -L instead of -R.

The above commands assume that you are using a terminal ssh client. Graphical clients, like PuTTY for Windows, also support tunneling

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here's what I do when a host ony allows pushing stuff, and no rsync:

create a "shadow" directory on your local machine to resemble the target structure
use rsync to push to this shadow directory, and capture the output (there's --log-file if you want to script it)
from the rsync output, determine the files you need to delete, or push and make a list
maybe (depends on the way you push): create a package from the files that need to be changed only
start your push tool - ftp, scp, whatever - and let it run on the files from the list

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