Secure File Copy

[Mike Hernandez]

On  Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 05:47:55AM -0800, Joshua Lewis wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 5.4 system and I have no way to back up the data. I don't
> have a burner and I can't get one anytime soon. I do however have a burner
> on my wifes G4 laptop. I have enabled SSH on the FreeBSD system and I can
> SSH into the box from the Mac, However I do not know how to copy the files I
> need to back up from the FreeBSD system to the Mac. Thanks ahead of time for
> any help.

You said the easiest way in your subject, just use scp :)

You could also install samba on the bsd box and use mac os x's smb support, or
you can set up nfs.

I suggest scp, it's the easiest since you already have an ssh server running.

quick example: scp local_file.txt user at remotehost:

Good luck :)

Mike H