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getting two directories to be the same

getting two directories to be the same

2005-03-24       - By James Cooley

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rsync will let you sync up two directories on the same system.  Just
run it as if the nfs mount was a local filesystem like so:

rsync -a /nfs/source/mount /local/destination/directory



By default, rsync will not delete files from the destination that do
not exist in the source directory

--James Cooley




On Mar 24, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Steve Buehler wrote:

> At 05:27 PM 3/24/2005, you wrote:
>>> I am doing backups of a remote server by mounting the remote server
>>> using
>>> NFS.  I am now running into the same problem that I was having trying
>>> different ftp programs to mirror it.  The problem is deleting files
>>> on the
>>> backup server that are not on the remote server.  There is not ssh
>>> access
>>> to the remote server and the ftp daemon on the remote server sucks
>>> to say
>>> the least.  Anyway, I have the remote server NFS'd to the local
>>> (backup)
>>> server.  Is there an easy way to mirror the directory recursively
>>> from the
>>> nfs drive to the local drive?  I NEVER want to delete anything from
>>> the
>>> NFS'd drive.
>>
>> rsync seems to be your best bet :)
>> It will also give you the ability to do away with your nfs mount
>> since rsync can function via ssh and other less secure protocols not
>> requiring the filesystem to be local, this the r in rsync.
>
> Thanks, but nope.  I have a choice of ftp, and nfs.  rsync is one of
> the first things that I had checked into when we took this job to do a
> remote backup for a customer.  Will rsync work the nfs mount like it
> was remote?  The customer is running a Snap server that doesn't allow
> ssh, telnet, rsync.  It allows limited ftp and it allows nfs.
>
> Steve
>
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