Re: [SLUG] mirrored directory

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2003 - 14:46:17 EST


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Eric Jahn wrote:

> I have a samba client connection to a shared file server at work. I'd like to
> keep a mirror on my laptop of one of the subdirectories (and all its
> contents) on this shared file system. Is there an easier, more dynamic way
> to do this without doing some sort of cron-job "cp -a" command? So if a new
> file is added to the shared network subdirectory, that file will be copied to
> my laptop drive also, and they will stay in synch. Thank you -Eric

'rsync' comes to mind, but I've never used it.

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