Command syntax:
scp -pr /your-folder-or-file-location/ destinationuser@IP-or-host:/destination-location/
Real example:
scp -pr /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/Vista-32/ root@192.168.2.224:/vmfs/volumes/ds-sata/

I came across a lot of situations where I needed to know the exact version of the OS I was using. Mainly, because of the dependencies involved (Python, PHP, MySQL, etc).

So, open up a terminal and use the following commands in order to view the exact version of your Linux operating system.