Copying changed files to USB.

dougnc · 01-03-2008, 07:05 AM

Here's the deal. I'm trying to move from an XP conputer to a Linux notebook. I have an 8gb usb memory stick. What I'd like to do is find a program that runs under both XP and Linux that will keep a development directory on my memory stick always up to date. I would copy the entire development directory to the memory stick. Then before I go home I would run this program to copy over the changed files. Then I would do the same thing on my Linux notebook.

Any suggestions?

jlinkels · 01-04-2008, 05:19 AM

In Linux there is rsync. It synchronizes to directories including subdirectories.

In Windows there is Briefcase, which I thought does the same job of synchronizing. But briefcase chokes if your sync directories are too large. Before I moved away from Windows 4 years ago I used FolderMatch.

jlinkels

dougnc · 01-04-2008, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlinkels

In Linux there is rsync. It synchronizes to directories including subdirectories.

In Windows there is Briefcase, which I thought does the same job of synchronizing. But briefcase chokes if your sync directories are too large. Before I moved away from Windows 4 years ago I used FolderMatch.

jlinkels

I don't suppose there's a gui version of rsync.

FolderMatch isn't very intuitive. This is my development directory. I'd be in deep dodo if I screwed in up.

dougnc · 01-12-2008, 03:37 PM

I've been using cwrsync to back up my development system to the USB stick. It works very nicely.

cioannou · 03-11-2008, 04:23 AM

Hi,

I have a similar problem but the case is:

Rsync from SMB mount -> NTFS-3G mount.

It seems that everytime it wants to sync all files, is there any way to grab only the changed/new files?

jlinkels · 03-11-2008, 06:00 AM

That the intention of rsync:

Code:

rsync -auv /sourcedir/ /destdir

I don't know how you have access to the NTFS partition, but if it is through SMB it should recognize file times as well.

jlinkels

cioannou · 03-11-2008, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlinkels

That the intention of rsync:

Code:

rsync -auv /sourcedir/ /destdir

I don't know how you have access to the NTFS partition, but if it is through SMB it should recognize file times as well.

jlinkels

Thanks a lot for the answer.

NTFS disk is mounted using ntfs-3g and the disk is locally connected to my system.

cioannou · 03-11-2008, 11:17 AM

It seems to be working better by using the --modify-window option. Although it grabs a few files that haven't changed for weeks , it's still better than grabing the whole folder structure.

dougnc · 03-12-2008, 12:13 PM

SMB changes the checksums somehow. There's an option for rsync to go off of date/time.

Actually, it might be the other way. You have to use the option for checksum rather than date/time.