copy a bunch of rile, then delete from source

[Phil Savoie]

Hi Ugo,

Why not do an md5sum on the completed .gz tarball before copying the 
again on the file once received before deleting the sourcde?

Phil

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    Here is what I want to do:
> 
> - Copy a number of files (using a wildcard, like logapplication*.tar.gz) 
> from one server to another
> - Once done, I want to delete the files from the source server.
> 
> The first step is easy to do... ssh keys, cronjob, and scp.  However, 
> can I be sure that the file has been copied successfully?  I thought of 
> comparing md5sums source/destination before deleting the source.
> 
> Could rsync be of help?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ugo
>