Synchronization Question

Karl Goetz kamping_kaiser at internode.on.net
Fri Mar 31 04:14:26 UTC 2006


Mark Johanson wrote:
> What would be a good choice to sync 2 directories?
> 
> I am taking a class in web coding and I wanted to sync a
> directory on a thumbdrive and a directory on my laptop. This way
> both are always up to date. 
> 
> I thought about using rsync but I'm not sure if this would be
> the best choice (having never used it before). Would this be a
> bit over powered for the simple thing I want to do or is this my
> best choice?
> 
rsync would be fine. something simple like `rsync -av ./UsbStick/Work
~/CodingStuff`

FWIW, you might like to look into a RCS on your laptop if your doing
coding of some sort.
kk

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