On Thursday 19 April 2007 02:54, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > If your server side requirement is not limited to ftp, I would suggest > you investigate rsync [1] and unison-gtk [2]. These are special tools > for *synchronizing* files and directories across networks, while ftp is > focused on simply *transfering* files. > > rsync is command line and 'perfect' for synchronizing data from A to B > or vice versa. Instead of you having to look for all the changed files, > the program will look for all files that are different at A and B and > only transfer those parts of files that are different, saving bandwidth. > It is very fast on synchronizing a 200 GB partition of mine to its > backup over the network. At the same time it is more secure than ftp, > since it uses ssh for encrypting the transfer. > > unison-gtk is a gui application that will look at both directory trees > and detect and transfer all files that have to be synchronized from A to > B or vice versa. It is extremely fast at finding all the files that > differ on my 40GB laptop partition from those on my workstation and > synchronize all those that were changed on the workstation to the laptop > and vice versa without me having to remember that I edited document A at > the workstation, but document B has the current version on the laptop. I > also use it to synchronize our web pages, so people can connect from > more than one machine and don't have to worry about accidentally > replacing the more recent copy of a file on the server with their older > one from the last synchronisation. ;-) > > NB: unison (without gtk) can be used via the command line as well, but > from your previous post, I gathered that you might prefer a gui. > > HTH, > > Johannes > > [1] http://rsync.samba.org/ > [2] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
I will definitely looked into these two because that is exactly what I am looking for. I have been so impressed with samba since moving to Linux that I think that rsync will be my next try. I don't really have a preference for GUI or CLI as long as they can be configured on a per-site basis so that I don't have to spend a lot of time typing or clicking. I am perfectly happy with a CLI that can take it's input from a script so that I can do something like; <cmd> -f <ScriptFileName> This is preferable to a poorly designed GUI program that would take say 5 dialog boxs and several mouse clicks to do the same thing. lftp will do this from what I have seen so far. The problem with lftp thought for me seems that it can't mirror a local directory to a remote site and I need to be able to mirror both ways. But I am still looking at it. It does almost everything else you could think of so it should do that as well. If anyone is interested is a good tutorial on using lftp here is one I found; http://www2.papamike.ca:8082/tutorials/pub/lftp.html It only deals with the FTP side of lftp though. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
