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title: "How to Use SCP Command to Securely Transfer Large Files to Cloud IDE"
date: "2023-09-27T17:49:02+00:00"
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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:

    $ scp myzipfile.zip mysite.prod@mysite.ssh.prod.acquia-sites.com:

  
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 mysite.prod@mysite.ssh.prod.acquia-sites.com: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 mysite.prod@mysite.ssh.prod.acquia-sites.com
    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:~$