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On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 15:19 +0100, kevin wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 14:49 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > A friend of mine has mentioned a backup solution he currently has > for > > backing up a load of audio and video files between two servers over > the > > internet. > > > > Basically what he wants to do is send over only files that have > changed. > > The audio files are uncompressed WAV files and the video is standard > > MPEG2 format video. > > > > I wondered if this is something that rsync would be able to do? > > > > Some of the audio files do occasionally have changes, such as > trimming a > > bit of silence off the end of the file or adding audio to the end of > it. > > I know technically it is seen as data but I wondered if rsync would > > successfully be able to send over the differences in files? > > > > Ta, > > > > Rob > > > this works for me > To transfer from Shop on Shop to kevinspc as root do > > rsync -avz ~shop/Documents/ kevinspc:~kevin/shoprsync/ > > > To transfer from kevinspc on kevinspc to Shop as root do > > rsync -avz /home/kevin/cashbook > shop:/home/shop/Documents/accounting/cashbook > > > > To update the webserver from shop to linux do > > as root on shop > > > rsync -avz /var/www/html/ linux:/var/www/html/ > > it's so simple when it works > You need to put in passwords if required > You can do ssh rsync by swapping ssh "keys" so it runs unattended from > cron. Great, do you have to run the rsync daemon on either of the PCs? Ta, Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html