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Re: [LUG] Rsync with audio/video files

 

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



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