[TriLUG] syncronizing directories

[Andrew Perrin]

I have an IBM USB MemoryKey, 32MB, which I bought from the UNC Health
Sciences Bookstore for about $40 (don't remember the exact price).  It
works well for me - see http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/usbkey.html
for more.

Best,
Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, John F Davis wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> Please respond to trilug at trilug.org
> 
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> To:    trilug at trilug.org
> cc:
> Subject:    [TriLUG] syncronizing directories
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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