[Tfug] Synchronizing directories.

[Bowie]

rsync is your friend. :)

rsync -vaz /source /target


On May 4, 2010, at 7:57 AM, John Hubbard wrote:

> I have a htpc that lives in my living room, a desktop machine that  
> lives in my office and a wireless network that connects the two.   
> Both machines have NFS running and that is how I access files.  My  
> wireless network isn't quite fast enough.  When I try to open a 5MB  
> image file located on the remote machine, it takes a little longer  
> than I would like.  (I have tested bandwidth and iperf claims that I  
> am seeing ~8Mbits/sec between the two machines).  Keeping a copy of  
> every file on each machine solves my current problem of a slow  
> network connection as well as my lack of backup.  Is this the best  
> solution or is there some special filesystem that would solve my  
> problem?  If copies of the files is my best bet how should I  
> implement it?  I am not sure if rsync will work to solve my problem  
> because I can't guarantee which machine I will delete the files from.
>
> So does anyone know of a solution to my problem, or do I need to  
> write a custom script to crawl the relevant directories on both  
> machines and inspect timestamps to determine if a file has been  
> added or deleted and then make the appropriate change on the other  
> machine?  Has anyone already written this script?  Any thoughts are  
> greatly appreciated.
>
> It shouldn't matter much but this is being done on various versions  
> of Ubuntu.  In the near future I will likely be upgrading to the  
> 10.04 but at the moment one machines is 9.10 and the other is 8.04.
>
> Thanks
> -john
>
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