Date Published: September 27, 2023
How to Use SCP Command to Securely Transfer Large Files to Cloud IDE
There are some cases where you may need to upload a very large file to the Cloud IDE and this method may help you to do it faster but with extra steps.
1- First upload your file to your preferred cloud environment:
Output after running the above command:
myzipfile.zip
sent 55 bytes received 137 bytes 384.00 bytes/sec
total size is 1,085 speedup is 5.65
Note: To find out what is your SSH path, login to Acquia Cloud the click on your environment then you can see SSH URL in the Information section.
2- Login to you Cloud IDE and open the terminal:
Run the following command to copy the file from the Cloud environment to your IDE.
MyIDE:~/project $ scp [email protected]:myzipfile.zip .
myzipfile.zip
100% 1085 1.1KB/s 00:00
Additional note:
You can SSH to your Acquia Cloud environment in the IDE by running the following command:
MyIDE:~/project $ ssh [email protected]
Welcome to Acquia Cloud. For information about shell access on this
server, please see: https://docs.acquia.com/cloud-platform/manage/ssh/
Usage may be monitored and audited.
mysite@ded-5411:~$
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