How to use wildcards (*) when copying with scp

This looks like there is a problem with ssh configuration on the servers - you cannot ssh from any of them (probably for security reasons).

You can try Stephane's suggestion to do the transfer from your local machine (scp user@server.a:/home/public/backup.tar user@server.b:/home/public/). This should out rule the problem with taking input from terminal (which might me purposely created on the servers).

If that doesn't help, it will mean that the provider probably disallows outgoing ssh connections. In that case, you'll be left with two options:

• ask the provider to enable outgoing ssh connections

or

• transfer the files through your local machine:

  scp -3 user@server.a:/home/public/backup.tar user@server.b:/home/public/

You need to run the scp command from the local machine, not on the remote. You don't need the ssh at all:

dragonmnl@local $ scp -P 2222 file.ext username@domain:~/ 

You also don't need the -r:

 -r      Recursively copy entire directories.  

If you are already logged into the remote machine and want to copy from your local, you need to make sure that your local machine is accessible via the internet and has ssh set up. I don't think this is what you are after but if it is, just run this from the remote:

username@domain $ scp dragonmnl@local:/path/to/file.ext ~/