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user2300940
user2300940

Reputation: 2385

scp from inside a GCP VM to another server

I am trying to transfer the file samtools.tar.bz2 from inside a VM instance to another server outside GCP called [email protected]: However, I get the following error:

gcloud beta compute scp --project "absolute-bison-xxxx" --zone "europe-west4-a" samtools.tar.bz2 [email protected]:/home/local/user

error

ERROR: (gcloud.beta.compute.scp) Could not fetch resource:  - Invalid value 'server.uni.no'. Values must match the following regular expression: '[a-z](?:[-a-z0-9]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?|[1-9][0-9]{0,19}'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 719

Answers (1)

Sergiusz
Sergiusz

Reputation: 1245

Take a look at the documentation:

(BETA) gcloud beta compute scp securely copies files between a virtual machine instance and your local machine using the scp command.
(...)
When the destination of your transfer is local, all source files must be from the same virtual machine. When the destination of your transfer is remote instead, all sources must be local.

It won't work with two remote machines, even if they are both in GCP.

A crude workaround is to download the file to your local machine:
gcloud beta compute scp --project "absolute-bison-xxxx" --zone "europe-west4-a" USERNAME@INSTANCE_NAME:~/samtools.tar.bz2 samtools.tar.bz2
and then upload it to the external server:
scp samtools.tar.bz [email protected]:/home/local/user

Upvotes: 1

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