How to Copy Everything in a DIR to Another Machine's SCP
SCP (secure copy) is a Linux program that lets you perform a file or directory copy from one machine to another and have the data stream be encrypted during the transfer. You can use SCP to connect to another machine and copy a directory (sometimes abbreviated as 'dir') from your computer to the other computer.
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Instructions
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Log in to the Linux machine that you want to copy files to from another machine.
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Open a Terminal window. Type "su" and press "Enter."
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Type out your root password and press "Enter."
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Type "scp -r user@remotemachine: /remote/files/to/copy /local/copy/folder" into the command line, substituting in the actual user, remote machine name, remote file copy path and local destination path for the example values in this command.
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Press "Enter," type in the remote machine's password when prompted and press "Enter" again. The directory specified is copied.
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