Copying files from A to B remotely, automatically?

[sttroopers]

Ok. Here's what I need to do:

 

I'd like to setup an hourly cron job to take all the .log files from...

 

ftp://me@serverA/files/*.log

 

and copy them to...

 

ftp://me@serverB/files/

 

Both of these servers require a separate password. I have very limited experience with this sort of thing and any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks.

Edited April 14, 2004 by sttroopers

[Guest anon]

Rsync is your answer. The list of options are very long, so open a consol and type

man rsync

If you get stuck, let us know!

[Qchem]

I'd grab for scp myself, not sure how well this works with ftp sites though. Should be easy to set-up key based access....

[sttroopers]

Rsync is your answer. The list of options are very long

And in greek. According to the man pages it looks like I'll have to first copy the files to a local directory then upload them.

 

Note  that in all cases (other than listing) at least one of the source and destination paths must be local.

 

scp looks like what I'm looking for but the man page is sparse and doesnt provide any example scripts, which is basically what I'm looking for. I was hoping someone with some experience would provide an example.

Edited April 14, 2004 by sttroopers

[Qchem]

Assuming sshd is set up correctly:

 

scp me@serverA:files/*.log me@serverB:files/

 

should do it, although I've only ever tried between a remote and my local machine.

 

HTH