Copying Directories Alphabetically using ls and sort

I have several servers with a SAN backend. The goal is to copy only selected files to another SAN.
SAN01 has several directories in it. SAN02 is brand new, and will be used has a near line backup.
I would like to have the servers connected to it copy specific directories from SAN01 to SAN02. I was thinking about breaking the directories up alphabetically. For example, if I had 2 servers connected to the SAN, server1 will copy a-l, and server 2 will copy m-z.
I know there must be a way to do this using a combination of ls and sort, but I’m not sure what that combination is.
Any help is appreciated!
David

Ok, somebody sent me this;
so, if I had a set of files called:
alex.0001.cin
brian.0001.cin
clay.0001.cin
david.0001.cin
elrond.0001.cin
faramir.0001.cin
and I wanted to copy just the a thru c files, I would do:
% cp [a-c]* destinationdir/
and it would copy alex, brian, and clay to whatever the desitinationdir is.

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