Sorry Dan, you did say automated.  Here is the step to achieve this.

(which addresses supplying the password, whilst invoking the command.)

rsync -ave ssh [email protected]:/path/at/remote/ /path/local
>/path/to/log/rsync.log

certificate login to remote
http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/ssh_keys.html

password login to remote
http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html

depending on your server and how you log in, doing either of those will
allow you to cron your rsync to happiness :)

v

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:19 AM, Victor Villa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> you're looking for something like
>
>  rsync -ave ssh [email protected]:/path/at/remote/ /path/local
> >/path/to/log/rsync.log
>
> Where
> * a = archive mode
> * v = verbose (for logging purposes)
> * e = specify how
>
> The man is here: http://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync
>
> mj/v
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:52 AM, Dan Egli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks, here's a quick one. I'm trying to create an automated transfer
>> that will use rsync to duplicate a file tree onto another computer. I've
>> heard that rsync can use ssh to do this, but I'm not sure how I'd
>> accomplish it. As it stands now, my idea was to mount the remote server
>> via
>> sshfs and then call rsync as if it was a local transfer. That would
>> probably work, but it seems like a kludge. Does anyone have any experience
>> with pushing files to a remote host over an ssh connection with rsync? If
>> so, I'd love to know how.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --- Dan
>>
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