Syncing files on a home network

[ruscook]

Cliff,
Rsync does not "require" s/w at both ends. It can take advantage of it 
to compress data streams etc, but if it's a SMB share or other local 
partition it will quite happily write to it as well as via the 
client/server mode.

Here's the syntax for a local copy (it would not matter if 
/mnt/root/home is local or SMB as long as it's mounted).
rsync -avhx --stats --delete-after /home/ /mnt/root/home/

I have this in root's crontab for a 4 times a day sync between 
partitions (there's an issue with mirroring at the moment so this is my 
workaround). Note the --delete-after switch.

Russ

Cliff Hall wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded.  It looks like Unison, like rsync, 
> requires that software be running on both ends.  This will work great 
> for my music server, but not for the network drive, which is not a 
> computer and can't load and run programs.  If anything comes to any of 
> you as a solution for this while you're daydreaming in the shower or 
> something, let me know.
>
>

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Kind Regards Russell
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