Synchronizing two folders

[tim.conway at philips.com]

there are two ways to make two directories identical with rsync.
run it both directions
run it in the direction you want the changes to move in, and use --delete 
to remove things on the destination that aren't on the source.
The first one has the disadvantage that nothing ever goes away, unless you 
manually remove things on both sides.
The second one has the disadvantage that anything added on the destination 
goes away.
The second way is the more rsync-suited solution.  Trying to maintain two 
disconnected copies of a file structure, allowing concurrent changes on 
both ends, is non-deterministic.  sure, you could use -u, and get just the 
newest changes, but what about the changes made on the other end at the 
same time?

unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) is safer for that sort 
of work.  It uses some of rsync's optimizations, but is time-aware, I 
think.  If something has changed on both sides since the last sync, the 
change is not propogated, and comes up in an exception list of some sort, 
for manual reconciliation.

Tim Conway
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Tito Ciuro <tciuro at mac.com>
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10/02/2002 02:13 AM

 
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Hello,

I'm quite new to rsync, and after reading and checking some examples I 
still have a question regarding synchronization:

What arguments should I use if I want to synchronize two folders?

I need to make sure that after synchronization, contents on each side 
are the same. If I have new files in folder #2, these aren't copied to 
folder #1 after the process. It only passes files one way (folder #1 
--> folder #2)

Any ideas?

Thanks so much,

-- Tito

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