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 is my first StackOverflow answer. I had a task today which is similar to this. So, I tried to find a direct way to copy entire folder from windows to linux using python and paramiko. After a little research, I came up with this solution which works for smaller size folders with subfolders and files in it.

This solution first makes the zip file for the current folder (os.walk() is very much helpful here), then copies to destination server and unzip there.

zipHere = zipfile.ZipFile("file_to_copy.zip", "w")

for root, folders, files in os.walk(FILE_TO_COPY_PATH):
    for file in files:
        zipHere.write(os.path.join(root, file), arcname=os.path.join(os.path.relpath(root, os.path.dirname(FILE_TO_COPY_PATH)), file))
    for folder in folders:
        zipHere.write(os.path.join(root, folder), arcname=os.path.join(os.path.relpath(root, os.path.dirname(FILE_TO_COPY_PATH)), folder))
zipHere.close()

# sftp is the paramiko.SFTPClient connection
sftp.put('local_zip_file_location','remote_zip_file_location')

# telnet_conn is the telnetlib.Telnet connection
telnet_conn.write('cd cd_to_zip_file_location')
telnet_conn.write('unzip -o file_to_copy.zip')