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

Paramiko does not support directory transfers on its own. You have to implement it, as many existing answers here show.

Or you can use pysftp. It's a wrapper around Paramiko that has more Python-ish look and feel and supports recursive operations. See

• pysftp.Connection.put_r()
• pysftp.Connection.get_r()

Or you can just base your code on pysftp source code. Full a standalone portable Paramiko-only code see my answers to:

• Python pysftp get_r from Linux works fine on Linux but not on Windows
• Python pysftp put_r does not work on Windows

And as my answers above show, you actually have to use your own code, if you are on Windows, as pysftp does not work there.