[HLUG] Syncing with Windows..

[Julian Robbins]

Broomster wrote:
> Hi Gang,
> Newbie advice time again lol..
>
> As I'm the only one on our home network brave enough to ditch windows,
> I'm in need of a bit of help..
>
> Can anyone recommend a package preferably for my pc (tho if worst
> comes to the worst for one of the windows pc's..) that will sync files
> (in both directions) between my pc and a windows pc? Something simple
> with a gui if possible..
>
> We're connected via a router - and I tend to download some files that
> my partner would like on her pc too. Rather than us both downloading
> them, I'd like to send them across to her shared directory, and at the
> same time grab any she's downloaded that I haven't already got..
>
>
> Also, as we're on a capped broadband package (limited to 20gb a month
> during the day - but unlimited during the night (12am-8am) - I'd like
> to set ubuntu to download all the updates overnight.. Is there a
> simple way of doing this?
>   
Hi Mike

You may be best off with some kind of Rsync utility. It is very clever, 
platform independent, and only txmits not only just files that have 
changed, but the parts of the files that have changed. So if you have a 
2MB file, that you only edit a tiny bit, then only the change needs to 
be txferred, not the whole thing

There's a GUI with Linux called Grsync, which i tried the other day that 
you can get from the Ubuntu Repositories. I don't know of one for 
Windows, but I'm sure there must be one.

Perhaps someone else can help for that part ...

Julian




> Cheers,
> Mike.
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