Rusty Razor Blade
Took me a while before I got on the ball and starting doing this for syncing my web servers docs to my local machine (for backing up). I had previously used Interarchy for this, but I really prefer to use the command line, where I can schedule it via a cron (should all be 1 line).
rsync -ave ssh username@yourserver.com:/path/to/your/stuff/ /localpath/to/your/stuff/
You can put the local path first – it’ll push files up to the server instead.
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Easy way to remember the arguments is to use following command:
rsync -have ssh username@yourserver.com:/path/to/your/stuff/ /localpath/to/your/stuff/
also, you can do –progress if you like to watch the progress but shouldn’t use it in automated/scheduled scripts. other good argument is -z which does compression before moving it over internet, which is very useful if you are doing html/php or any other good compressable formats.