Development Automatic File Mirroring?

Hi,
is it possible to automatically mirror a file from another server on my own?
Is that the kind of thing Cron jobs can do? (Only needs to run daily, 12hr-ly to be safe.)

I'd also like to transform the (XML) file at some point (got the XSLT already) and was wondering if that could be done at the same time. (not a major problem if not)

TIA, j

 

Which os are you running? IF nix check out rsync in conjunction with cron, if windows its prolly easier to use something like xcopy and a scheduled task. There is a windows port of rsync but it aint fast

 

it's linux, but not my server - is my hosting with www.prokmu.com
(I guess I should ask them, but I'm not confident they'll know themselves tbh)

 

any other thoughts anyone?

 

hmm i made a script ages ago which tracked players on NS servers (tracked just our clan + friends + the guy know as confidence), now the box that was running the website had cpanel, and through that i made cron run a PHP script every 5 minuites

Now while i checked with the hosting people if that was okay (because it wouldn't of come out of my mates bandwidth, the way they log bandwidth) i had access to do that just on a regular cpanel account. How about that?

 

yeah, definately!
sounds like what I need.

I currently know nothing of cron, so if you can tell me how to use that too I'd be extremely grateful. (I can of course see how to select frequency etc, but don't know how the command to run should be entered)

 

well cron and howto in google work quite well.
(tbh linux admin = google("%i HOWTO")

In short you have cron tabs. Tasks. Cron is a periodic task shecdualar. So you will just do the command /usr/sbin/php ~/script.php

where the first one is the path to the php binary, and the second param the script your going to run with it. Simple eh?

 

lol, fair point.
i've not used *nix beyond a couple of crap lectures a coupla years ago, so wasn't sure if there'd be more to it.

I still need help with the file copying though.

 

I used a program earlier this year for a few months to transfer files at certain times, with plenty of options - program is vice versa pro, dang, google's down again! Google it and you should find it. Its a 30 day trial version, but I got my copy from my school!

 

that's not what I need - I need it for work, and it must run from the server so it doesn't matter if I'm in transit.

 

You can run the program from the server, you can also run it from the client if you want to.