Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello to all the experts around here.

I need to be able to create a script which will be copying all the data from each user account's jail home folder (SFTPWRITE) on one Centos 7 server to antother Centos 7 server. Both of the Centos servers are using Chroot jail where each account logs in to his home folder (/home/user/SFTPWRITE) and cannot see any other users folders.

For example: the home folders for each account is /home/temp01/SFTPWRITE where temp01 is the user and the home folder and the SFTPWRITE is the area from which each account has a write permissions.

I have got the same users and passwords + chroot jail permissions set up on both servers but the only thing I need is to copy the SFTPWRITE data for each account to a different server. If that helps, I also have a txt file which includes username and password.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

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Being in a chroot jail means they have no access to other commands, like archival commands. So, login as some other user, to create the archive with tar -zcpf filename.tar /path/to/chroot/jail, copy it over with scp, then extract it on the other side with tar -zxpf filename.tar