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Automatically copying files from server to local drive?

I would like automate the process of copying some logs files from a server to my local hard drive at a set time each week/day.

I don't really know anything about creating and scheduling jobs. Is this something I could setup relatively easily?

I would like to automatically copy all the logs that begin with 'webserver' to a drive on my desktop computer every few days or once a week.

I guess I could overwrite the existing logs on the desktop PC although renaming them so as not to overwrite anything would be preferable.

edit: desktop is Win XP, servier is Solaris 10

Any ideas how I could do such a task?

Thanks.

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You must not have a firewall in between your XP and SUN server network.
If this is true,
you can use a ftp transfer from your SUN server to your Windows machine. All you have to do is to add a cronjob entry. Do you get it?

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