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

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's also a tool called "mirror" which I think will do what he wants. 
http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/

From skimming the man page, it wasn't clear to me whether rsync is one
directional, or bi directional. Can it actually sync two directories which have
had changes to different files?

Greg


On Sun,
16 Apr 2000, you wrote: > 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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