[TriLUG] syncronizing directories

[John F Davis]

Hello Andrew,

I'm sure you have already seen the bit about rsync so I won't belabor the
point.  However,
I'm curious about your USB Frob.  Where did you get it and how much did you
pay for it?  Also,
what size do you have?  I used one of those about 1 1/2 years ago when they
were expensive
and ever since I've been looking to get one for myself.  At that time, they
only had one size (8MB)
and it was expensive.  Since then, I know they have release larger capacity
frobs.

JD

Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>@trilug.org on 07/10/2002
09:32:01 AM

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Before I go off and write a script, I'm wondering how others have solved
this problem.

I keep current projects on a USB memory key, which is faster and more
reliable than trying to make networked mounts available wherever I'm
working. But I'm concerned that I could lose or otherwise destroy the
thing, so I'd like a convenient way to back it up.

More to the point, though: the way I use it is I pull directories from my
(nicely backed-up) home directory at work onto the key, then edit them
there. The ideal solution for me would be some tool that takes each file
from the key and copies it back to the home directory, *unless* the home
directory's copy is newer, in which case it would copy it with some new
name.

I can write this easily enough, but if it's already written I'll pass.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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