https://chrizzle23.net/tags/scp/Recent content in SCP on Chrizzle23.netHugoenChrizzle23.net and all blog posts © 2026 by Chris Anderson is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://chrizzle23.net/posts/250221-hugoscp/Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://chrizzle23.net/posts/250221-hugoscp/<h1 id="publishing-hugo-sites-with-scp">Publishing Hugo sites with SCP</h1> <p>I keep having to re-remember how to do this:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>scp -prq public/. user@vps.mydomain.com:/var/www/mydomain.com </span></span></code></pre></div><p>To pull the entire /var/www directory from a remote server (to back up a published site)</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>scp -r user@vps.mydomain.com:var/www/ ~/wwwbackup/ </span></span></code></pre></div>