PSCP copy files from godaddy to my windows machine

Question

I want to take backup of my website which is hosted on godaddy.

I used pscp command from my windows dos and try to download whole public_html folder. my command is :

Answer 1

Also you can do same thing by not adding '/' at the end of your source path. For eg.

pscp -r user@host:public_html d:\sites

Above command will create public_html directory if not exists at your destination (i.e. d:\sites). Simply we can say using above command we can make a as it is clone of public_html at d:\sites.

Answer 2

Appending a star to the source should fix it, e.g.

pscp -r user@host:public_html/* d:\sites\;