Create a new keypair
ssh-keygen ....
Install on remote linux ssh
ssh-copy-id <public key> <destination URI>
Check that `ssh` sign-in requirements to see if password/key are mandatory…
Look in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
or /etc/sshd_config
for
PasswordAuthentication
PubkeyAuthentication
Restart the ssh service after changing these configs.
`rsync` provides reliability and consistency:
rsync -avzhe ssh --progress <user>:<host>:</folder/file> <destination folder/>