[ale] Syncing two machines

danverde danverde at comcast.net
Wed May 2 20:39:48 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 02 May 2007 8:42:17 am Brad Peters wrote:
> I have a laptop and a desktop, and what I want to do is keep a few
> directories in sync.  I can use rsync for this,   It's been a while since
> I've used rsync, but if I were to sync from my desktop to my laptop (given
> that my desktop has an empty dir and the laptop has the files I want), it
> would copy from the laptop over, or vice versa.  If so, then that might be
> what I want.
> 
> Does anyone else out there do syncing between desktop / laptop?  If so,
> I'd love to hear what you're using.  Eventually I want to write a script
> to check if the desktop is online from the laptop and automatically
> perform a sync.
> 

Since I do this on an as needed basis, I use an interactive gui tool like krusader.  It will allow me to mount remote file systems with ssh (fish) and then let me select directories or files to synchronize.





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