Rsync
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rsync
Laptop to PC
The following line works from my main Desktop to grab the Download folder in the laptop and update the contents of my drives on this Desktop:
jphf@DC266 Download]$ rsync -v -r f9@F9E:/home/f9/Download/* /sharedraid/matos/
you don't need to be root,
rsync is the name of the software you use to "Remotely Sync" folders,
-v or --verbose stands for, well, verbosity and does that, -r or --recursive tells it to dig down further into the Directory Tree, otherwise it just catches files in the source folder,
First, your SOURCE target:
f9@F9E tells it to log as user f9 on the remote F9E machine, our laptop f9@F9E:/home/f9/Download/* tells it then to take ALL in /home/f9/Download/
that of course only works if you declared your machines in /etc/hosts; otherwise, just use their IP addresses, it'll do the same
Then, your RECEIVING target:
/sharedraid/matos/ is where I will get all the F9E Download's folder items.
That's useful because it's the Laptop, being the less Energy-Hungry, that does all the downloads here on a quite 24/7/365 basis (What I do with all these bytes is my problem) and today my wife leaves on duty travel and needs it, so I will continue the last tor rent with this PowerHog of DualCore 2.66.
Pod to PC (on same machine)
Now then, what about old-school filesharing, pod-exchanging? In all fairness, updating the music folder should be:
jphf@DC266 Download]$ rsync -v -r /media/YOURIPOD/path/to/wusic/* /path/to/your/music/
That's with your pod attached to the same computer, and that's too with a non-mac pod that runs RockBox :)
Movies on Laptop to Desktop (over network)
Movies from Laptop to RAID array on DC266
rsync -v -r f9@F9E:/home/f9/Videos/* /sharedraid/movies/
from netbook, take from Laptop
From Acer, get Pictures from Asus to AcerOne, the whole shebang:
rsync -v -r f9@AA1:/home/f9/Pictures/* /home/user/Pictures/
Summary again
from receiving mahine: rsync -rv user@machine:/path/to/folder /path/to/folder/to/copy/to from old, sending machine: rsync -rv /path/to/archive user@machine:/path/to/folder
