Two Linux servers (one as a source and one as a destination) A user account with sudo privileges I’ll be demonstrating on Ubuntu Server 18.04 (for both source and destination).

Where USER is the remote username and SERVER is the remote server IP address. Save the crontab file and, every five minutes, those two directories should be put in sync with one another.

tells scp to copy a local file in the pwd named "example.txt" to the server at IP address 10.10.0.1 on that server's filesystem directory named "directoryName" as the user named "remote_user" with ...