copying between servers

[VangariDei]

I do most of my coding on a local developement server.
When I am am happy with the result I then need to move the script directories from my local dev server to my VPS.
I normally do this by tarballing it and ftping to my hosting server (VPS) or by pulling the whole thing up via wget.

What annoys me about this is that neither technique preserves my permissions.

Does anyone know an easy way off mirroring a files from one server to another whilst preserving permissions.

I suppose I could script up something to do it easily enough but would rather not if there is already a good way to do it.

[wuurp]

look at rsync