Script for automatic downloading

[FnF]

Looking for some help creating a script to use with WinSCP on my server, that will automatically download the contents of one entire directory and then delete it contents.

What I have going is I want to make backups of everyones Home Directories and SQL databases, which I already have WHM doing three times a week.

Now I would like WinSCP to log in afterwards, download them locally and then clear the directory.

I've got the basic jist of the script but I'm stumbling with downloading an entire directories contents, verses a single file. And the deleting part.

[kieransimkin]

scp's not really the ideal tool if you want to copy multiple files - however, you should be able to do remote filename globbing (google scp filename globbing) - I'd suggest rsync or something like that instead though.

[FnF]

Thankss kieransimkin.
I've looked at Rsync, but it's to my understanding that it compares files and and retrieves changes made etc. Hence the "sync".

I'm looking to have an archive of backups so that in the worst case scenario, I can pull a clean one from x amount of days, or weeks ago.