Linux and "offline folders"

[O. Sinclair]

Ignazio Palmisano wrote:
> O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Jonas Norlander wrote:
>>> 2009/1/9 O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com>:
>>> I'm using unison to sync my files between 3 computers and it has
>>> worked fine for my needs. It don't have the automagical you want, it's
>>> just a secure (SSH) plain and simple synchronization but perhaps it
>>> can be configured to your needs.
>>
>> I know about unison, have also had a look at "luckybackup" and various 
>> rsync facilities. Eg Smb4K has an excellent syncing facility as has 
>> Krusader. Problem is they all require "user intervention" and I would 
>> like this to be transparent. To me this is almost "last piece of the 
>> puzzle" to get a linux-client to replace Windows w/o users or 
>> management being able to say "and what about this facility/software" etc.
>>
>> At the moment I am looking at csync, it seems very promising:
>> http://www.csync.org/
>>
>> Sinclair
>>
> 
> What about combining rsync and cron? Like checking if the remote folder 
> can be reached every x minutes?
> 
> I.
> 
I have been considering something like that, am trying to get my head
around rsync and all its options