# Import images from one site one the same Trellis Server to another

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/import-images-from-one-site-one-the-same-trellis-server-to-another/10793
**Category:** trellis
**Created:** 2017-11-01T08:08:53Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @jasperfrumau — 2017-11-01T08:08:53Z

How do you guys deal with moving files from one site on the same Trellis server to another? I need to move images from one site under the main domain to a site under a subdomain on the same Digital Ocean Droplet setup with Trellis.

Do you use SCP or wp-cli and if so how? Does a command like

`wp media import /srv/www/domain.com/current/web/app/uploads/*`  
from destination site work going through all folders and importing images to media on site from where the command is fired?

Or do you use something like `scp -r` (not worked out the entire command yet and is more useful from server to server)  
Or better yet cp it seems and:  
`cp /srv/www/domain.com/current/web/app/uploads/* /srv/www/subdomain/current/dest`

and then import with the Add Server plugin for example?

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## Post 2 by @ben — 2017-11-01T14:49:35Z

I use `rsync`. In the example below, `example.com` is the source remote server and `howdy.com` is the destination remote server. Run this command from your host machine:

```
ssh -o ForwardAgent=yes web@example.com "rsync -aze 'ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no' --progress /srv/www/example.com/shared/uploads/ web@howdy.com:/srv/www/howdy.com/shared/uploads/"
```

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## Post 3 by @MWDelaney — 2017-11-01T15:35:37Z

… I just FTP them all down and then FTP them all back up to the new location.

… I am ashamed.

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## Post 4 by @lucas — 2018-04-27T21:42:11Z

This post has a playbook for uploads: [Pushing or pulling uploads with Trellis](https://discourse.roots.io/t/pushing-or-pulling-uploads-with-trellis/4177)