RE: non-interactive ftp

["Allen Bolderoff" <allen@gist.net.au>]

> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:47:06PM -0500, Chris Wagner wrote:
> > At 10:47 AM 11/28/2005 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > >to use ssh rather than ftp:
> > >
> > >tar cvf - /home | ssh operator@server "cat
>/backups/home_$weekday.tar"
> >
> > An even better version of this is the scp utility.  Secure remote
copy.
> 
> a different tool for a different job. scp can copy existing files. ssh
> is useful for (amongst many other things) piping stdout from a process
> on one machine to stdin of a process on a remote machine. and doing so
> with secure authentication and encryption.
> 

Never underestimate rsync

rsync -e ssh -avP username@hostname:/path/to/stuff/
/local/path/to/stuff/