[Gllug] Network synchronisation tool

[Adam Bower]

Garry Heaton wrote:
> I've been using a utility called Robocopy on Win2000/XP for some time to 
> synchronise/backup folders between 2 machines at home. It enables me to 
> write a batch file specifying folders to be synchronised via a mapped 
> drive. Since moving most of my work to Linux I now need a similar tool 
> to do the same job between 2 Linux machines but there are probably many 
> alternatives I'm not aware of. What is the right tool for the job? Perl 
> script? DrakSync (Mandrake)? ssh/scp with appropriate flags? This is 
> only for the network backup. I'll be using the CD burner for external 
> backups.

Rsync will do the job nicely

http://rsync.samba.org/

Adam


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