Re: Something better than ftp?

On 2008-12-11, C. <colin.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Possibly not - PushSite and rsync both compare local and remote
directory trees to work out what needs to be updated - this might
prove to be a bit of an overhead running every 2 minutes depending on
your bandwidth. But of course the source code for both is available
for you to rewrite yourself. A beter solution might be to just get a
list of files using 'find -newer' then run a full sync at intervals.

Heh, only a month or so behind the thread ;-)

IIRC the best candidate for the job was either rsync or unison.
Unison is very good IMHO if you need two-way sync, rsync is the best
for just one-way. For very frequent one-way updates rsync is very
quick, unison tends to do checksums more frequently but you can tune
that with a few parameters.

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