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Andrew Shum
Asked: 2017-11-01 14:13:03 +0800 CST

Transferring files between two remote servers that use different protocols

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Is it possible to directly transfer files between two remote servers when they don't use the same protocol? I have a lot of files on serverA (which, at least for now, must be accessed using SFTP) and want to copy them to serverB (which must be accessed using FTP). Unfortunately, I can't do anything on the servers themselves as I am an external client for both.

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    If I understand what you're asking correctly, I think you can do it with

    sudo apt-get install sshfs

    followed by

    mkdir serverAFiles
sshfs serverA:/path/to/the/directory serverAfiles

    Now you will see the files on serverA in the 'serverAfiles' directory just as if they were on the local machine, and can ftp them onto serverB just as if they were local.

    When you're done,

    fusermount -u serverAfiles

    will break the ssh connection and you'll no longer see the remote files as being local.

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