Hi All,

I would like to request any idea about my problem. I would like to transfer the directory from one server to another server with time schedule such as cron job. My Distro is CentOS 7. Eg. I would like to transfer the directory from one server to another server at every 10 minute. Any idea? Really appreciate for yours kindly suggestions.Thank you.

You can copy the directory with rsync or scp. You don’t say it, but I think you want the two directories synchronized. If so, raync is the better solution, as it only copies the files that are different.

You can do that every 10 minutes with cron.

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I would first suggest you read the "Question Guidelines" and "How to ask a smart question" links in my posting signature. A subject of "Help Me !!!" tells no one anything about your question. And there are many other threads you can find with a brief search that are almost identical to yours, that have solutions. And providing details about your environment helps too.

Using rsync could also easily be done, since that could also work over SSH, and that would probably be the first thing to investigate. Again, you don't provide details such as how much data, speed of the link between the systems, how much is going to change in those ten minutes, etc., etc....hard to give a good suggestion. But rsync is where I'd start.

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Thank you, I want to synchronized two directory. How about for Cron config? please could you show me the sample command? Appreciate for your kindly reply.

Hi Mr.TB0ne,

I have two server. 1st one server is existing server and 2nd server is the new installed.

1.I would like to transfer my 1st one server's directory such as /root/Server1_Data to my 2nd server's under /root Directory at every 10 minute.

2.Transfer Data size is 500 MB and speed of link between two server is 1Gbps.

3. There are two different network within the LAN.

Appreciate for your response.Thank you.

if you wish to use rsync you could start with the man page, you could find an example inside.
Otherwise all what you need is available on the net as examples or tutorials, you can choose your preferred way.
(Here, at LQ we used to say we won't google it for you).

Your crontab should contain
(or perhaps one more asterisk?)

Also, use man crontab. For rsync, you find numerous tutorials on the internet, including one by the auther, Andrew Tridgell.

EDIT: What I remember as Tridgell’s tutorial is actually the man page. Linuxjournal artcle about rsync: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6475.