[aclug-L] Re: Sychronizing data across the Internet

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think rsync is the tool-of-choice for this. It's probably in your distro,
otherwise it's easy to look up in linuxapps.com or freshmeat.net, etc.

John Reinke wrote:
> 
> For lack of knowing what "Fantastic Manual" to read, I ask this question.
> 
> I have data - usually either a directory of source code files or an entire
> web site that I'd like to have updated periodically. I will always be
> sychronizing it from the same machine, and hope to eventually get a cron
> job set up to run this, yet still have the option to run it manually.
> 
> I'd like it to work so that if I update a file on either machine, it can
> update things so that the newest version of the file will then be on both
> machines. I don't want to mess with CVS or anything like that. Is there
> some standard command to do this, or wil I need to write a script. It will
> run on my home Linux box, and need to log in to (ftp) another machine
> running UNIX to accomplish this.
> 
> Thanks for any tips or suggestions,
> John

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