From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Dec 9 01:08:22 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EC89D5B85 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 01:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x241.google.com (mail-ig0-x241.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED5F618AE for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 01:08:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by igbgg5 with SMTP id gg5so3932131igb.2 for ; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:08:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=LuidX3BMRFN/bv2WtYze8mSvqT+5e22VNnkMW/6S1uA=; b=GADharG4eUlFEjCoeFm5xdcPx3z7TelvP8afH3K0Q5qypLEhTZWG0cQwNaePMXd+wO GC7kHUTxhGPq4GgSV/cEseSRkNOvKE2HD3HpXJYgvUkp6Hk4JAFyLNFLsWvMHNenJCAy WPzn0vi8MeWBYwyybKH6PhzfIAi5W97eH+6Ollw3TVF9O00/cZV+ypDlWS//bvOonZbA r9IL7n2AJZ/gBZKd4BnrKDFA2LDrswOlFAASMjYA8iE0uMI+a1WtTUyD73l8aSDsfwvX fPBTv3ZS54GK4JldZaQOB/cjcMshHK4Nn7IFJSYLE4MaEKeLzqyae77PElIuBxtZ42sp EWOg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.147.105 with SMTP id tj9mr6493711igb.71.1449623301162; Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.79.1.136 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:08:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <13761006.QDN0LtKzYl@desk8.phess.net> References: <13761006.QDN0LtKzYl@desk8.phess.net> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:08:21 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Synchronizing directory hierarchies via SFTP From: Kurt Buff To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 01:08:22 -0000 Apologies for coming late to this... I see there's been a substantial amount of discussion regarding this, and you seem to have a satisfactory resolution. However, for the sake of completeness, there is a utility in the ports tree called unison which seems to fit your exact requirements. It works with SSH, and comes with or without GUI. Kurt On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Patrick Hess wrote: > Hi, > > what command-line tool could you recommend if you were in the need > to synchronize a complete directory hierarchy from your local system > to a remote server via SFTP? In the past, I was always able to use > tools like cpdup or rsync for this kind of job, but this time SFTP > is the only game in town. :-( > > I actually had a hard time finding anything useful. The only thing > that came up so far is https://www.csync.org, which compiles fine on > FreeBSD and does exactly what I need. Unfortunately, there doesn't > seem to exist a port yet. There's net/csync2, but that's completely > unrelated to www.csync.org. > > So before I go and create a new port for csync, is there anything > similar already available in the ports? > > Thanks. > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"