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I've just set up a fail-over DNS to switch the site to a second host if the first is down. This is great for showing an old / archived version of the site, but I suspect maintenance is going to be a real pain.

I moved the files over with rsync in the first place. Is this the kinda thing that could be run as a cron job, automatically moving over newer files?

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Rsync was designed exactly for this sort of thing. It will work great as a cron job.

To do a daily sync on the cron job:

$ crontab -e
Add line:
0 0 * * * [rsync command line]
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Could you help me out with the exact line for the chron job? I'm not too familiar with this sort of thing... – Matrym Apr 5 '10 at 21:53
Google "man crontab" for full details. – John Gardeniers Apr 7 '10 at 3:33
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