Retrieve data from Remote machine

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Hello

Please I ask if it is possible to recover data that is stored on a remote machine that I access via ssh on a usb ? if so, how?

Thank you so much

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man scp
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On a USB what?

4

I think he means he carries around putty or somesuch on the USB stick with him.

You can carry around pscp.exe too and use it like

pscp username@host:remote-file local-file
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I have two machines M1 and M2 (ubuntu). I connect to M2 from M1 via ssh I want to recover files from M2 on an usb (flash disk) connected to the machine M1

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scp, sftp et al use ssh protocol to connect. pscp is a form of scp, you can use the same on most any UNIX:

scp username@remote-host:remote-file local-file

You can also do something like this to transfer a folder:

ssh username@host tar -cf - /path/to/folder | tar -C /path/to/usbdrive/ -xf -

Or even just

ssh username@host cat /path/to/filename > local-filename