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description: Copy files among machines
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keywords: machine, scp, subcommand
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title: docker-machine scp
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---
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Copy files from your local host to a machine, from machine to machine, or from a
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machine to your local host using `scp`.
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The notation is `machinename:/path/to/files` for the arguments; in the host
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machine's case, you don't need to specify the name, just the path.
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## Example
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Consider the following example:
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```none
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$ cat foo.txt
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cat: foo.txt: No such file or directory
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$ docker-machine ssh dev pwd
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/home/docker
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$ docker-machine ssh dev 'echo A file created remotely! >foo.txt'
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$ docker-machine scp dev:/home/docker/foo.txt .
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foo.txt 100% 28 0.0KB/s 00:00
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$ cat foo.txt
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A file created remotely!
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```
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Just like how `scp` has a `-r` flag for copying files recursively,
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`docker-machine` has a `-r` flag for this feature.
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In the case of transferring files from machine to machine,
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they go through the local host's filesystem first (using `scp`'s `-3` flag).
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When transferring large files or updating directories with lots of files,
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you can use the `-d` flag, which uses `rsync` to transfer deltas instead of
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transferring all of the files.
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When transferring directories and not just files, avoid rsync surprises
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by using trailing slashes on both the source and destination. For example:
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```none
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$ mkdir -p bar
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$ touch bar/baz
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$ docker-machine scp -r -d bar/ dev:/home/docker/bar/
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$ docker-machine ssh dev ls bar
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baz
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```
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## Specifying file paths for remote deployments
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When you copy files to a remote server with `docker-machine scp` for app
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deployment, make sure `docker-compose` and the Docker daemon know how to find
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them. Avoid using relative paths, but specify absolute paths in
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[Compose files](/compose/compose-file/index.md). It's best to specify absolute
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paths both for the location on the Docker daemon and within the container.
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For example, imagine you want to transfer your local directory
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`/Users/londoncalling/webapp` to a remote machine and bind mount it into a
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container on the remote host. If the remote user is `ubuntu`, use a command like
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this:
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```none
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$ docker-machine scp -r /Users/londoncalling/webapp MACHINE-NAME:/home/ubuntu/webapp
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```
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Then write a docker-compose file that bind mounts it in:
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```none
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version: "3.1"
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services:
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webapp:
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image: alpine
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command: cat /app/root.php
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volumes:
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- "/home/ubuntu/webapp:/app"
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```
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And we can try it out like so:
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```none
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$ eval $(docker-machine env MACHINE-NAME)
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$ docker-compose run webapp
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