Easy way to securely synchronize two files which reside on different servers? (Linux)
 

I need to find a program for Linux which copies a file on one server to a file on another server at regular intervals.

Any ideas? Would be cool if it used a secure file transfer protocol.

I use ncftpget on a cron to grab shit off a different server.

http://www.ncftpd.com/ncftp/doc/ncftpget.html

Thanks dude, I'll give it a try!

Use rsync over ssh, both are standard on most *nix systems. Read the man pages, but the following is the basic idea:

rsync -p -e ssh /path/to/local remote.host.com:/path/to/remote

The beauty of rsync is that you can use it on whole directories and it will only transfer the files that are different.

RSYNC http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ +
OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com/ +
a cron job

Thanks NetRodent and Groove.

How are things Net?

rsync is free and works perfect if you manage to figure out how to install and use it :)

The hard part was configuring the RSA keys with SSH, but after that, it wasn't too bad.

Thanks again.