Step-by-step instructions for installation: 1) Install the rsync package (included with most distributions, see http://www.rsync.org if you don't have it. 2) Install a command line ssh tool (openssh is included with most distributions too, see http://www.openssh.org if you don't have it). 3) Make sure you can ssh to the remote systems. 4) Install rsync-mirror into /usr/bin if it's not already there. 5) Copy rsync-mirror.example.conf to /etc if there's not already one there. 6) Try a trial run: mkdir /tmp/sourcedata echo "Some file content" >/tmp/sourcedata/onefile echo "/tmp/sourcedata/ remotesystem:/tmp/destdata" >>/etc/rsync-mirror.conf rsync-mirror You should now see "Some file content" in the /tmp/destdata/onefile over on remotesystem. 6) Edit /etc/rsync-mirror.conf to include one line for every directory that needs to be regularly mirrored. The rsync-mirror.example.conf includes some sample lines.