I currently use the current command to copy/backup my website:

scp -r user@remoteserver:/remote/dir/of/files/* /local/tager/dir/

However this fails to copy my .htaccess file so I have to scp this separately. Is there a way to recusively copy the whole site including files that being with "."?

I'm not sure which shell you're using, but on some shells you can use curly braces to pick up hidden (dot) files.   Thus:

Code:

$ ls -1 {*,.??*} .htaccess WHC.css ac.html accommodation.tab ic.jpg il.jpg index.html ir.jpg robots.txt stay.html $

versus

Code:

$ ls -1 * WHC.css ac.html accommodation.tab ic.jpg il.jpg index.html ir.jpg robots.txt stay.html

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