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

[John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx>]

I looked at the man pages for rsync, and it looks like what I need. It even
allows use of ssh. However, it needs to be installed on both the local and
remote machines. Rather than install it as a user on the remote machine, I
looked around a little more. There is a similar command called rdist which
already existed on both machines, but I wasn't sure if it was quite the
right thing. I also looked at mirror (below) and that's what I ended up
using. It wasn't the easiest thing to figure out, but it works. Thanks for
the suggestions.

Now, I need to figure out why I can't get cron jobs to run...

John

>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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