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Re: [LUG] rsync and file transfers

 

On 18/11/10 23:18, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:09:15 +0000
David Vanstone wrote:

Hey there

I have a problem I can't really work out how to solve. I'll try to
explain as best as possible.

Basically I have a server (in one house) and a client computer (in a
separate house)

What I want to be able to do is - Plug USB Hard drive into server
computer, make it send any news files since the last time it was
plugged in from a certain folder on the server to the USB HDD.

Then take the USB HDD to the client PC plug it in and all the new
files off the USB Drive, copy them to a folder on the client PC then
delete all files off the USB Hard drive.

I'd like it to do this automatically so its literally just plug the
drive in and away it goes.  We are talking 1 terrabyte+ so need the
USB HDD to empty after each transfer and hold some sort of log file
that the server will query, so that it doesnt transfer all the files
again, only new ones from that differ from the last transfer. rsync
would work great on this if i didnt need to keep the USB HDD empty,
unless any of you know a way of doing it?

Any ideas would be a great help!

Many Thanks,
Dave

You're right - rsync would be great for this if you didn't need to keep
the USB HDD empty... why is that, by the way?

You could also take a peek at Unison for file syncing.

Grant.


Doh I read it wrong, I thought you needed to keep the data on the drive :-P

In this case, not sure, is there an equivalent to the 'archive' flag on Linux? (if it was DOS, I'd say copy everything with the archive flag set).

Rob

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