On NAS16 Run this: sudo tar -czf /tmp/fundtracker-current-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).tar.gz -C /Kingdezignsnas16 fundtracker Then: sudo ls -lh /tmp/fundtracker-current-*.tar.gz That gives us a snapshot without changing the application. Then from your Linux desktop From your desktop terminal: scp rufusking@192.168.150.40:/tmp/fundtracker-current-*.tar.gz ~/Downloads/ If the wildcard doesn't work properly with scp, that's fine—we'll use the exact filename returned by the ls command. Don't delete the archive from NAS16 yet.