Re: Synchronization Question

Harijs Buss wrote:

On Friday 31 March 2006 05:25, Mark Johanson rakstija:
What would be a good choice to sync 2 directories?

rsync

I thought about using rsync but I'm not sure if this would be
the best choice (having never used it before).

Yes, rsync will be the best choice. No doubts at all.

Hardly "the best". Unison uses rsync to give you an even better
experience :-)

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derek


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