Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:26:17 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Patrik Astrom <patrik@astrom.net> Cc: Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to keep two directory trees in sync? Message-ID: <20000614092617.A1597@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140959510.43843-100000@styx.astrom.net>; from "Patrik Astrom" on Wed Jun 14 10:05:31 GMT 2000 References: <009701bfd5ce$5b77a450$0100a8c0@locutus> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006140959510.43843-100000@styx.astrom.net>
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In the last episode (Jun 14), Patrik Astrom said: > On Jun 14, 2000 at 00:01, Donald Burr wrote: > > I have a desktop and a laptop, and I need a way to keep a directory > > tree synchronized between the two machines. (yes, they are > > networked.) (e.g. If I make a change on the desktop machine, it > > should get propagated to the laptop, and vice versa). > > I think rsync is the tool for you. > > Check it out at: http://rsync.samba.org rsync is great for one-way synchronization, but doesn't do correct two-way synching. For that, you need at least one machine to hold a "snapshot" listing of the other machine's files the last time they were synched. That way you know whether to copy or delete files that exist on only one machine. I haven't seen any programs that do true n-way synchronization. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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