Script used for moving files between computers

Question

I have two Ubuntu machines, machineA and machineB. I would like to write a script that periodically (e.g., every 15 minutes):

• copies ALL the files contained in a folder of machineA to a folder in machineB (via scp)
• deletes ALL the original files in the folder of machineA

Could you help me in doing this and/or give me hints in writing it myself?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could create a cron job on one machine which does the scp to the other machine and deletes the corresponding files on itself.