Directory transfers with Paramiko

Question

How do you use Paramiko to transfer complete directories? I\'m trying to use:

sftp.put(\"/Folder1\",\"/Folder2\")

which is giving me this e

Answer 1

This can all be done quite easily using just paramiko.

A high level summary of the code below is:
- connect to the SFTP (steps 1 to 3)
- specify your source and target folders. (step 4)
- copy them over one by one to wherever you like (I've sent them to /tmp/). (step 5)

import paramiko

# 1 - Open a transport
host="your-host-name"
port = port_number
transport = paramiko.Transport((host, port))

# 2 - Auth
password="sftp_password"
username="sftp_username"
transport.connect(username = username, password = password)

# 3 - Go!

sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(transport)

# 4 - Specify your source and target folders.
source_folder="some/folder/path/on/sftp"
inbound_files=sftp.listdir(source_folder)

# 5 - Download all files from that path
for file in inbound_files :
    filepath = source_folde+file
    localpath = "/tmp/"+file
    sftp.get(filepath, localpath)