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Brian O'Dell
Brian O'Dell

Reputation: 3059

Using fabric to copy file from one remote server to another remote server?

I need to make a service that can copy a file from one remote server to another remote server. I could just run this in a subshell:

scp user@host1:/path/to/file/video.mp4 user@host2:/path/to/file

But that doesn't seem nearly as good as using something like fabric's put command, which only copies a local file to a remote machine. I also need this to run entirely with ssh keys, no password prompting.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6622

Answers (2)

James Socol
James Socol

Reputation: 1795

You can use get to get the file from host1 and then put to push it to host2.

For keys, if the private key isn't in the default location, you can specify it with the -i flag, e.g.:

fab -i /path/to/priv/key

or put it in the fabfile:

from fabric import env
env.key_filename = '/path/to/priv/key'

Upvotes: 4

Mohit
Mohit

Reputation: 921

Also there is a possibility where agent forwarding can be used(as of fabric 1.10, with option -A). In which case you can just run the following command from host1

scp /path/to/file/video.mp4 user@host2:/path/to/file

or from host2:

scp user@host1:/path/to/file/video.mp4 /path/to/file

Upvotes: 4

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