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+const { Client } = require('ssh2');
+const scpClient = require('scp2');
+
+const ssh = new Client();
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const child_process = require('child_process');
+
+const privateKey = 'path/to/your/key.rsa';
+
+const sshConfigIntermediate = {
+    // name: 'prod.brainlife.io',
+    host: '149.165.152.60',
+    username: 'ubuntu',
+    privateKey: require('fs').readFileSync(privateKey),
+    // passphrase: 'your key passphrase',
+}
+
+const destinationServerDetails = {
+    remoteHost: '10.0.18.41',//'prod-api-1',
+    remotePort: 22,
+    remoteUsername: 'ubuntu',
+    remotePath: '/tmp/test/'
+};
+
+const sourceServerDetails = {
+    localPath: '/tmp/test/',
+    localPort: 50000 // This is the port that you are forwarding to the destination server
+}
+
+console.log(`Looking for key in: ${privateKey}`, fs.existsSync(privateKey));
+console.log(`Current working directory: ${process.cwd()}`);
+
+// ssh -L 50000:prod-api-1:22 ubuntu@prod.brainlife.io -fN
+// rsync -azv -e 'ssh -p 50000' /tmp/test/file.txt ubuntu@localhost:/tmp/test/file.txt
+
+
+if (!fs.existsSync(privateKey)) {
+    console.error('Private key file not found');
+} else {
+    ssh.on('ready', () => {
+        console.log('SSH Client Ready');
+
+        ssh.forwardOut('127.0.0.1', sourceServerDetails.localPort, destinationServerDetails.remoteHost,
+            destinationServerDetails.remotePort, (err, stream) => {
+                if (err) {
+                    console.error('Error: ', err);
+                }
+
+                console.log('Forwarding connection established');
+                const rsyncCommand = `rsync -azv -e 'ssh -p ${sourceServerDetails.localPort}' ${sourceServerDetails.localPath} ubuntu@127.0.0.1:${destinationServerDetails.remotePath}`;
+
+                child_process.exec(rsyncCommand, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
+                    if (err) {
+                        console.error('Error: ', err);
+                    }
+
+                    console.log('stdout: ', stdout);
+                    console.log('stderr: ', stderr);
+
+                    ssh.end();
+                });
+            });
+    }).connect(sshConfigIntermediate);
+}