Jack recently made a blog post in which he provided a script which can transfer your files between your personal computer and a given remote machine via temporarily hosting a file on file.io (blog post here); where you have some sensitive data that you do not want to risk hosting online, you can also fairly easily use SCP to keep business strictly between your local and remote machine.

What I am referring to is described here. This blog post refers to the case where you want to SCP from local host to a remote machine which is only accessible via a gate server (this isn’t necessarily true for the Stats computers as we can use the VPN to directly access our remote machine of choice by the way). I won’t effectively plagiarise the blog post I linked to as the explanation is clear enough in itself, but you just use port forwarding and the localhost address of your local machine!

Best wishes,

Eve