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yash thakkar
yash thakkar

Reputation: 141

download file from google cloud compute instance

When I use format like

gcloud compute copy-files user@instance-1:/home/user/file \ /home/user/Desktop \ --zone europe-west1-b

it gives me error

no such file or directory as desktop

Upvotes: 11

Views: 47634

Answers (7)

Viraj Wadate
Viraj Wadate

Reputation: 6193

This worked for me

Syntax :

gcloud compute scp <UserName>@<ServerName/InstanceName>:~/<FilePathFromInstance> <LocalSystemFilePath>

Upvotes: 3

Farhad
Farhad

Reputation: 632

I used this on Linux:

LOGNAME=<USERNAME> gcloud compute scp <USERNAME>@<INSTANCE_NAME>:<TARGET_PATH> <LOCAL_PATH> --project=<PROJECT_ID> --zone=<ZONE_ID>

Upvotes: 0

nicha23
nicha23

Reputation: 1

Another way for Windows users is using remote application such as MobaXterm. After SSH to your unix servers, you can easily download/upload files from/to servers via GUI.

Upvotes: 0

Vishal Mehra
Vishal Mehra

Reputation: 1

Landed up using google storage buckets to move large files between compute engine and workstations. Moved multiple GBs in a few seconds instead of hours trying to download individual files.

Upvotes: -2

mpskovvang
mpskovvang

Reputation: 2323

If you're connecting to the instance via https://console.cloud.google.com using SSH for Google Cloud Platform, you can download a specific file via "Download file" from the Settings menu (accessible through the settings icon in upper right corner).

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Upvotes: 27

Apurv Agarwal
Apurv Agarwal

Reputation: 3198

If you have a file on gcloud compute engine instance which you want to transfer to local machine or another instance, the best way is to upload the file to google cloud storage. Make the link public and download it. Follow these docs https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/uploading-objects

Suppose you have a file example.zip that you want to download. First create a bucket in gcloud storage, suppose example10.

You have multiple language options to upload a file. I'll be showing examples in Curl and Python.

To use Restful API on curl you first have to get a OAUTH2_TOKEN to access the cloud storage.

Then type this on Terminal

curl -X POST --data-binary @example.zip \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer [OAUTH2_TOKEN]" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/zip" \
    "https://www.googleapis.com/upload/storage/v1/b/example10/o?uploadType=media&name=myexample.zip"

Now I'll be showing you an example using Python

Make sure that your instance has Full Access to all Cloud APIs if you don't want to use an OAUTH2_TOKEN. Then you can use python to upload the object.

Install python's google cloud storage client

pip install --upgrade google-cloud-storage

Then open the python command line by entering python on terminal

from google.cloud import storage

def upload_blob(bucket_name, source_file_name, destination_blob_name):
    """Uploads a file to the bucket."""
    storage_client = storage.Client()
    bucket = storage_client.get_bucket(bucket_name)
    blob = bucket.blob(destination_blob_name)
    blob.upload_from_filename(source_file_name)
    print('File {} uploaded to {}.'.format(
        source_file_name,
        destination_blob_name))

upload_blob("example10", "example.zip", "myexample.zip")

You can find option to give Full Access to all Cloud APIs by clicking on instances's name and editing the details.

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Upvotes: 2

bazhua324
bazhua324

Reputation: 156

This works for me - Mac OS X

gcloud compute scp username@vminstance:source-directory local-directory --zone instancezone

Before you have to set PATH correctly for using Google SDK.

PATH=/your-google-cloud-sdk-folder/bin:$PATH

Upvotes: 14

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