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Forgive me if I word this Poorly.

I'm working with a Linux desktop and several ESXi hosts. Lets name my desktop Desk-1 and the ESXi hosts ESXi-1 and ESXi-2 for simplicity's sake. I'd like to move files from ESXi-1 to ESXi-2. I can use lftp to gain access to each host and upload/download files to/from Desk-1 and Desk-2 without issue. Is there a way to move the files from ESXi-1 directly to ESXi-2 without first writing the files to Desk-1. I'm open to using any Linux based solutions.

Thanks in advance.

Matthew.Paul.P
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  • possible duplicate of [Server to Server transfer](http://superuser.com/questions/214277/server-to-server-transfer) – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 May 05 '14 at 20:57
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    Would it be possible to `ssh` to ESXi-1 and do `scp` from there? That would eliminate the intermediate bandwidth problem from @Zoredache's answer below. – Ryan May 05 '14 at 23:41

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Since both servers are running ESXi you could use scp -3 option to transfer from one server to another without the files being stored on the intermediate system. The bandwidth of the intermediate system will still be used though.

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If your ftp server supports FXP, ie, Server to Server File Transfers, you could use an FXP compliant ftp client to initiate the server-to-server file transfer. This would let the client tell server A to send a file to server B.

Not too many servers support this, primarily because you have one server process trying to open a direct connection to the other server process, and many servers prevent this for security reasons.

Hope that helps!

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