Symptom
A SCP (Secure Copy) file transfer from the router may fail intermittently with the following error:
ROUTER#copy running-config scp:
Address or name of remote host []? a.a.a.a
Destination username [user]? user
Destination filename [ROUTER-confg]?
Writing ROUTER-confg
%Error writing scp://*@a.a.a.a/ROUTER-confg (Unknown error -1)
Conditions
File copy using the SCP protocol.
Workaround
Try to perform the same SCP copy again.