Paramiko's SSHClient with SFTP

Question

How I can make SFTP transport through SSHClient on the remote server? I have a local host and two remote hosts. Remote hosts are backup server and web server. I need to find on backup server necessary backup file and put it on web server over SFTP. How can I make Paramiko's SFTP transport work with Paramiko's SSHClient?

Answer 1

paramiko.SFTPClient

Sample Usage:

import paramiko paramiko.util.log_to_file("paramiko.log")  # Open a transport host,port = "example.com",22 transport = paramiko.Transport((host,port))  # Auth     username,password = "bar","foo" transport.connect(None,username,password)  # Go!     sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(transport)  # Download filepath = "/etc/passwd" localpath = "/home/remotepasswd" sftp.get(filepath,localpath)  # Upload filepath = "/home/foo.jpg" localpath = "/home/pony.jpg" sftp.put(localpath,filepath)  # Close if sftp: sftp.close() if transport: transport.close()