How do I sync /home with a samba share

Thblaze · 02-17-2012, 02:10 PM

Hi . I wanted to find out how to sync /home with a folder in a samba share.

My teacher has a old laptop ( xp old ) and I upgraded it with kubuntu. I have figured out how to mount the samba share our school uses for its windows computers however I either need it to be 'available offline' or synced to the /home folder. I have tried using <domain>/username

assword@southdserv02/collegestaff in etc/passwd but it didn't work. Any ideas ?

cheesus · 02-17-2012, 03:24 PM

I do not think you can do that "available offline" thing directly.
mount the share using mount -t cifs //host/share /mnt -o user=XXX,password=YYY
then "sync" (i.e.) copy the stuff you want over using rsync command.
(see "man rsync" for details or google for a tutorial...)

you can run the rsync command again to "keep the stuff in sync" / refresh your copy.

Cheers, Tom.

Thblaze · 02-18-2012, 06:46 AM

Isn't rsync a one way sync?

Thblaze · 02-18-2012, 06:55 AM

I just checked and it is.
Is there any way I can which file is more recent and sync that one to the not so recent one ?
If its a bit complicated then I'd appreciate a bash script

cheesus · 02-18-2012, 08:02 AM

tried unison ?
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up...n-ubuntu-11.10
Cheers, Tom.

Thblaze · 02-18-2012, 10:17 PM

Don't have access to the server

omgs · 02-20-2012, 04:41 AM

I'm not sure rsync doesn't do what you want. So, apart from what you've already been told, I suggest to build a test case (if not the real one) and find what is not working for you. As far as I understand your vague example, rsync already does that.