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

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes. rdist is intended to do what you want as well. It, however, uses
rsh (I don't know that you can make it use ssh) so it has a few more
security issues to it. It works well though.


On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 11:41:20PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> 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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