Using SCP with Savio

This document describes how to use SCP to transfer data between your computer and the Savio high performance computing cluster at the University of California, Berkeley.

The following examples show how to transfer files using SCP via the scp command in a shell/terminal window, on your own computer running Mac OS X, Linux, or Unix.

To transfer a single file from your computer to your home directory on Savio (substitute your actual username on Savio for myusername in the two places it appears below):

scp myfile.txt myusername@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:/global/home/users/myusername

To transfer a folder and its contents from your computer to your home directory on Savio (substitute your actual username on Savio for myusername in the two places it appears below):

scp -r myfolder myusername@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:/global/home/users/myusername

And to transfer that same folder to the shared Scratch filesystem on Savio (substitute your actual username on Savio for myusername in the two places it appears below):

scp -r myfolder myusername@dtn.brc.berkeley.edu:/global/scratch/myusername