[opensuse] rsync for Samba
I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks. -- Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Donald D Henson wrote:
I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
Google rsync + windows and the first entry is deltacopy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Cotton wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
Google rsync + windows and the first entry is deltacopy.
Thanks but from the writeups I think I like Unison better. At Least that's the one I'm going to try first -- Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Donald D Henson
I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
-- Don Henson
Don: I use Unison for this. There are packages for both Linux and Windows. It does not use cifs (it uses ssh) but it is utterly reliable. We have been doing this between our linux server, a remote linux server and roaming laptops running linux and Windows (2k and XP) for over 5 years now. It has a pretty good manual and can sync entire sub directory structures and handle manually specified exclusions. It uses rsync over ssh for most transfers but some For an ssh package on windows I use an older openssh version. -- ----------JSA--------- Sig line deleted for the humor impaired. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Donald D Henson
wrote: I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
-- Don Henson
Don: I use Unison for this. There are packages for both Linux and Windows. It does not use cifs (it uses ssh) but it is utterly reliable.
We have been doing this between our linux server, a remote linux server and roaming laptops running linux and Windows (2k and XP) for over 5 years now.
It has a pretty good manual and can sync entire sub directory structures and handle manually specified exclusions. It uses rsync over ssh for most transfers but some
For an ssh package on windows I use an older openssh version.
Sounds good. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for the pointer. -- Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Donald D Henson
wrote: I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
-- Don Henson
Don: I use Unison for this. There are packages for both Linux and Windows. It does not use cifs (it uses ssh) but it is utterly reliable.
We have been doing this between our linux server, a remote linux server and roaming laptops running linux and Windows (2k and XP) for over 5 years now.
It has a pretty good manual and can sync entire sub directory structures and handle manually specified exclusions. It uses rsync over ssh for most transfers but some
For an ssh package on windows I use an older openssh version.
Any idea where I can find "libgtk-win32.0-0.dll"? It didn't show up in a google search. (I'm not a windows guy.) The text version starts but immediately terminates. -- Don Henson
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Donald D Henson
John Andersen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Donald D Henson
wrote: I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory. Neither rsync nor rdiff-backup speak cifs. At least I don't think so. I searched the samba site and found nothing specific although there could be something buried in there. At this point, I'm faced with doing frequent manual transfers or with writing a script to do the transfer. (I've never written a real script.) If anyone has experience doing this or knows of a command that could be made to do this, I'd appreciate hearing about it. Thanks.
-- Don Henson
Don: I use Unison for this. There are packages for both Linux and Windows. It does not use cifs (it uses ssh) but it is utterly reliable.
We have been doing this between our linux server, a remote linux server and roaming laptops running linux and Windows (2k and XP) for over 5 years now.
It has a pretty good manual and can sync entire sub directory structures and handle manually specified exclusions. It uses rsync over ssh for most transfers but some
For an ssh package on windows I use an older openssh version.
Any idea where I can find "libgtk-win32.0-0.dll"? It didn't show up in a google search. (I'm not a windows guy.) The text version starts but immediately terminates.
-- Don Henson
http://alan.petitepomme.net/unison/index.html refers to: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235 -- ----------JSA--------- Sig line deleted for the humor impaired. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 04:56:26AM -0600, Donald D Henson wrote:
I have a requirement to synchronize a (large) Windows directory with a Linux directory.
You might investigate in direction of http://csync.org/ as it has a backend to CIFS server by utilizing libsmbclient. Not to require any additional software on the Micrposoft side is the main advantage and was a design goal. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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Dave Cotton
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Donald D Henson
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John Andersen
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Lars Müller