From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 18:41:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5233016A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:41:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpanel10.gzo.com (69-56-171-54.theplanet.com [69.56.171.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2000143D2D for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dany_list@natzo.com) Received: from pcp04633543pcs.gambrl01.md.comcast.net ([68.49.69.186] helo=natzo.com) by cpanel10.gzo.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B9Ebu-0004nD-EV; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:40:46 -0600 Message-ID: <406CD2B6.5090504@natzo.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 21:40:54 -0500 From: Dany Nativel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steven N. Fettig" References: <4054B6A3.7080704@stevenfettig.com> In-Reply-To: <4054B6A3.7080704@stevenfettig.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel10.gzo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - natzo.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 02:41:03 -0000 Have you tried unison (FreeBSD, linux, win32, OSX) ? http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ (available in ports too) Dany Steven N. Fettig wrote: > I have two workstations I use (one at home and one at work) connected > via a private DSL link that each have the directories /home/me. I > want to run a cron job to sync the directories (bi-directionally). > Rsync seems to work only in one direction (I know I could set up the > script on both machines), but I wanted to see if I could run the > script on one machine and simply copy new files over to the lacking > machine or update files via checksums (where a file has been updated > on one machine and I want that updated file to be copied over the old > file on the other machine). I am not worried about the case where I > might update a given file on both machines at the same time - it > doesn't happen. > Any advice and scripts that you use to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > Steve Fettig > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"