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Old 11-03-2005, 01:32 AM   #1
IBall
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File Sync between laptop and desktop


Hi,
I have a laptop running OS X 10.3, and a desktop running Debian Sarge. I need to synchronize files between the two, so that both the laptop and the desktop has the same copy of the files.

I guess I need to use rsync, but that copies new files but doesn't delete files on the other computer. For example, say I delete the file foo.txt on my laptop but not on my desktop. If I then rsync the laptop with the desktop, the file is copyed back to the laptop.

What I would like to do is have a shell script that I can run from the laptop, so that when I run it, I get the same copy of files on both the laptop and the desktop, regardless of which computer has the newest files.

Thanks in advance for any help
--Ian
 
Old 11-03-2005, 03:24 AM   #2
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You need to add the switch --delete-after to the line so that old files are deleted like;

rsync -ave ssh --delete-after /directory/ <laptop_ip-address or name>:/directory/

You can make a bash script with this and then to make it executable do chmod 700 ./<script_name>. It will still require you to interface to enter the password.
I use kde and run KBear to manage an Internet server and KBear has a facility to sync directories.

Last edited by TigerOC; 11-03-2005 at 03:31 AM.
 
Old 11-03-2005, 06:06 AM   #3
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Thanks for your help TigerOC.

--Ian
 
  


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