The scp answer is a good one and should work just fine if it is a small amount of files that you need transfered but if it fails or you have to stop the transfer you can use rsync. The command would look like this rsync -rP -e ssh username@serveraddress:"directory/file" /destinationfolder/ the r is for recursive downloads if you need a folder, the capital P is so that you can resume what had failed or been stopped prematirely and the e ssh tells rsync to comunicate over ssh. Hope that this helps.