Copy files between Linux Systems using scp

1. Copy file from a remote server to local server: copy directory pathogenbase from remote server /srv/www/ directory to current working directory

scp -r user_name@remote_ip:/srv/www/pathogenbase/ .

2. Copy file_name from local server to remote server: copy file_name from /srv/www on local server to remote server /srv/www/

scp /srv/www/file_name user_name@remote_ip:/srv/www/

3. If you are copying files between windows and Linux you could use winSCP.