THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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For the purposes of this example the remote system is named "sftpremote.example.com". The files that will to be retrieved are in a directory named /data/source/fires and the files are named smokeYearMoDy_wkt.txt. The Thus the data file for March 25, 2008 is named "smoke20080325_wkt.txt".
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Access to a remote system using SFTP uses the SSH secure shell protocolsprotocol. Although the behavior is similar to FTP, it is not FTP run over a secure connection. So there There are some differences between FTP and SFTP that should be noted. One of these it the lack of the FTP binary/ASCII transfer mode, in SFTP all transfers are binary as if they were executed with an "scp" (secure copy) command.
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