[ubuntu-za] Copying files

[William Walter Kinghorn]

Hi All,

Just found this article : http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/easy_file_sync_bitpocket

William
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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of William Walter Kinghorn [williamk at dut.ac.za]
Sent: 08 March 2012 07:55
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Copying files

Hi All,

I am using 12.04, so these might not be in the repos

in Synaptic, search for "rsync"

found

grsync : GTK+ frontend for rsync

gtkrsync : GUI front-end to display rsync status

luckybackup : rsync-based GUI data backup utility

William
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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of frans [dormakorp at vodamail.co.za]
Sent: 08 March 2012 07:47
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Copying files

On 12/03/08 06:56, Tom Bamford wrote:
> On 7 March 2012 20:07, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com
> <mailto:cairnsww at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I often use something like:
>
>     cp -uR /home/bill/ebooks /media/Andrew/BupBill
>
>     to back up a directory. The advantage is that if nothing has changed
>     between my current ebooks directory and the one on Andrew, there is no
>     time wasted.
>
>
> Hi Bill
>
> I know you said you wanted a GUI method, however rsync will do what
> you want with the minimum of typing and fuss:
>
> rsync -av /home/bill/ebooks/ /media/Andrew/BupBill
>
> Perhaps you can save this, and other commands, into a shell script on
> your disk called Andrew so that you can invoke it with a double click
> in Nautilus.
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
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Cool thing about sync are that there are actually gui's available...but
we are saying we want that option in a file manager, like "Overwrite If
Newer"

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