From: Jim Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
To: Joshua Rogers <joshuarogers@hopper.net>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Syncing files between two computers
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:36:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <421EFF99.3010106@cwazy.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502242343.16282.joshuarogers@hopper.net>
Joshua Rogers wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way to sync files between my laptop and my
> desktop. I've begun using my desktop as only a media center. It holds all
> of my movies, music and photos. Sometimes I make changes to files, add files
> or remove files on my laptop and have to remember what to manually change
> later on my desktop. Sometimes I'll rip another CD or new DVD to my desktop
> and want to automatically copy the changes to my laptop.
>
> I believe that I can get this done, but I before I go inventing the wheel, I
> would like opinions of what software is best. rsync? rsh? something else
> completely?
>
> I use Linux 2.6.10 on Debian (Woody, I believe). Both the laptop and the
> desktop have P4s and over 512Mb RAM. I have them contented to my internal
> network at my house, with the desktop and laptop both using DHCP.
>
> Is there a way that I can have my computers sync certain folders, and the
> actions on the files in those folders? (ex: updates, deletion, addition)
>
> Many thanks. My digikam albums and I thank you all very much!
>
> Have a wonderful day (or night...)
>
> Joshua Rogers
>
rsync works great for me backing up my fileserver NFS and Samba shares to an
external FireWire HD on my desktop machine.
rsync -av /source-dir /dest-dir
is what I use - you can also set up remote rsync servers (haven't played with
that, tho).
Jim
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2005-02-25 5:43 Syncing files between two computers Joshua Rogers
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