On 4 Feb 2002, Jack McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I read my email on my laptop, and it is sometimes necessary to > login to a central server to read my email (firewall issues). What I do is > to peridocally sync with the central server (which we'll call "server") by: > > rsync -e ssh -rptlv Mail server:. > rsync -e ssh -rptlv server:Mail .
I think the problem is not so much that it takes two commands, but rather that there is domain-specific merge knowledge that rsync does not have. With your commands, all messages will end up on both machines, which is fine to start with. But if you delete a message it will presumably keep on being copied back from the other machine. I don't know a good way for rsync to distinguish between the case of a message deleted on machine A, and a message newly added on machine B. If you use --update, and only flag files rather than deleting them then I guess you would be OK. -- Martin
