Another way to skin a cat. Telnet session to control VR will open although telnet is globally disabled.
import subprocess
import time
p = subprocess.Popen(['telnet', '-v', '1', '127.0.0.1'], stdin = subprocess.PIPE)
print >> p.stdin, 'admin'
print >> p.stdin, '\n'
print >> p.stdin, 'scp2 scpuser@10.0.0.1:bd8800-15.7.2.9.xos bd8800-15.7.2.9.xos'
time.sleep(3)
print >> p.stdin, 'scppw'
time.sleep(60)
p.terminate()