What is the Best way for uploading accumulated files?

dimsh · 01-26-2006, 02:35 AM

Hi all, I need suggestions on this please...

We have a local PC hosting a project designed with java and using Tomcat as its web server.
The webapp directory for that application has a size of about 600MB and a very big number of files.

Now I need to upload the alpha version of this webapp to the remote PC (the real server) for testing, the problem is I need to keep the remote copy the same as local copy, I can not upload 600MB every time a file got changed locally, and I can not use Sync of any kind because I have problem connecting the local PC to the remote via FTP or SSH (ISA and ISP issue),
so I need to upload only Changed Files manually.

How can I get the only changed files since the last upload , the last upload may be incremental too, so for example the third sync must take care of the second and first syncs and so on, and here where I got confused

.

can I use rdiff ? can it make the backup on local machine and then restore on other machine? I am not familiar with it actually, but it is good in incremental backups.
or there is another way for doing so.

I am looking forward for any suggestions.

Regards

carl0ski · 01-26-2006, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dimsh

Hi all, I need suggestions on this please...

We have a local PC hosting a project designed with java and using Tomcat as its web server.
The webapp directory for that application has a size of about 600MB and a very big number of files.

Now I need to upload the alpha version of this webapp to the remote PC (the real server) for testing, the problem is I need to keep the remote copy the same as local copy, I can not upload 600MB every time a file got changed locally, and I can not use Sync of any kind because I have problem connecting the local PC to the remote via FTP or SSH (ISA and ISP issue),
so I need to upload only Changed Files manually.

How can I get the only changed files since the last upload , the last upload may be incremental too, so for example the third sync must take care of the second and first syncs and so on, and here where I got confused

.

can I use rdiff ? can it make the backup on local machine and then restore on other machine? I am not familiar with it actually, but it is good in incremental backups.
or there is another way for doing so.

I am looking forward for any suggestions.

Regards

you can share the remote computers harddrive Read/Write

Samba or NFS

mount -t smbfs \\10.0.0.56\dump /mnt/sync
cp -R -u /webappdir/* /mnt/sync/webappdir/

-u only copies newer files and ones that dont exist.
-R recursive copies all files folders etc

copy command is surprisingly flexible
cp --help