(Theoretically it should work, but Godaddy won't keep your connection long enough to do such sync. So I give up, HL 20100105 )
If you are using Ubuntu machine, you can install it from the repository just by one command:
sudo apt-get install unison
There is also a gtk front-end for this software: unison-gtk, but I think it's useless at most time.
Now, another problem comes to front–in order to synchronize files with SSH, both installations of Unison on client and server are required. However, at most time, you don't have the permission to install software such as unison on SSH server. Here, we attack this issue by SSHFS. It allows you to mount a remote folder on your local machine via SSH. Then you can easily sync it like local a folder with Unison.
I wrote a small script to handle the synchronization:
#!/bin/sh sshfs -o workaround=rename username@sshserver:/path/html/wiki wiki-remote/
echo "Synchronising with sshserver"
unison /var/www/dokuwiki/data ./wiki-remote/data \
-fastcheck yes \
-ignore 'Path cache' \
-ignore 'Path locks'
Modify it to fit your actual environment. Note that the argument of sshfs command "-o workaround=rename", this prevents the "renaming problem".
All things done. Excute this script. Or, you could add an cron job to run this script automatically once per day. Have fun in synchronizing files with SSH!
