See: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/site/public/?title=linux-sftp
Note - you may get a message like ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host; this might be because there are currently too many connections - http://www.raditha.com/blog/archives/000604.html - or it may not
To get individual files
From a unix shell on the CBU system:
sftp yourwbicusername@gate1.wbic.cam.ac.uk
From there you can ls, get help with ? and copy files with:
> get a_wbic_file
and get lots of files with:
> get a_wbic_directory/*
To get directories etc
Use scp. For example:
scp -r yourwbicusername@gate1.wbic.cam.ac.uk:my_directory .
will copy the wbic directory my_directory and all files below to your current working directory (.)
And delete the files you've fetched
Check you have really got the data you think you have transferred, then:
Use ssh:
ssh yourwbicusername@gate1.wbic.cam.ac.uk rm -rf my_directory