Secure Copy

If you are looking for some alternate method for File Transfer Protocol, there is very useful and good working Secure Copy (scp).
Based on Secure Shell protocol, method for transfering files between two hosts:

local - remote
remote - remote

Secure Copy allow to send files/directories to a server, including their basis attributes. SCP is very similar to RCP protocol known from BSD, however it's most secure because of encrypted connection.

usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file]
           [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program]
           [[user@]host1:]file1 ... [[user@]host2:]file2