From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Nelson Subject: Re: Syncing files between two computers Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:36:09 -0500 Message-ID: <421EFF99.3010106@cwazy.co.uk> References: <200502242343.16282.joshuarogers@hopper.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: <200502242343.16282.joshuarogers@hopper.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Joshua Rogers Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs