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	Once you have a zip file with the files you want, you transfer it to wherever you want to keep it. If you want to transfer to your personal computer, use an [https://cs.indstate.edu/~~wiki~~/index.php/Linux_-_System_Setup#File_Transfer_Program sftp program] to transfer to your computer. If you want to transfer to a different account on the CS server (or on some other unix/linux/mac server) you can use the text-based sftp program. If I wanted to transfer the account_backup.zip file to some_server.indstate.edu with account someLogin on that system, I would do the following.		Once you have a zip file with the files you want, you transfer it to wherever you want to keep it. If you want to transfer to your personal computer, use an [https://cs.indstate.edu/web/index.php/Linux_-_System_Setup#File_Transfer_Program sftp program] to transfer to your computer. If you want to transfer to a different account on the CS server (or on some other unix/linux/mac server) you can use the text-based sftp program. If I wanted to transfer the account_backup.zip file to some_server.indstate.edu with account someLogin on that system, I would do the following.
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If you want to create a backup of your account on the CS server, you can do the following.

First, create a zip file that contains the files you want to backup. The following creates a zip file account_backup.zip that contains all files except the .cache directory and account_backup.zip.
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find . ! -name account_backup.zip -path "./.cache" -prune -o -print | zip -@ account_backup
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If you wanted to just zip certain directories (for example, the directories h1, h2, h3, h4) you could to this instead.
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zip account_backup h1 h2 h3 h4
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Once you have a zip file with the files you want, you transfer it to wherever you want to keep it. If you want to transfer to your personal computer, use an [https://cs.indstate.edu/wiki/index.php/Linux_-_System_Setup#File_Transfer_Program sftp program] to transfer to your computer. If you want to transfer to a different account on the CS server (or on some other unix/linux/mac server) you can use the text-based sftp program. If I wanted to transfer the account_backup.zip file to some_server.indstate.edu with account someLogin on that system, I would do the following.
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# already logged in on the CS server, then run the following in the terminal -
sftp someLogin@some_server.indstate.edu

# may have had to enter password, and once you do that you are in the sftp program
# and can issue sftp commands, for example put to send the file to some_server
put account_backup.zip
quit
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