About:
drsync is a Perl wrapper for rsync which keeps track of the filelist between synchronizations. If you delete a file in one place, it will delete it in the other place; if you add a file, it copies to the other place. It is ideal for notebook users who want to keep data in two (or more) different places. It is also good for the Linux PDAs (Agenda, iPAQ, Yopi, etc.), to keep data synchronized with the desktop. The requirements are designed to be minimum.

Author:
Szabó, Balázs (dLux) <dlux |at| dlux |dot| hu> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://hacks.dlux.hu/drsync/
Tar/GZ:
http://hacks.dlux.hu/drsync/drsync.tgz
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/drsync

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: Artistic License, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Communications

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.4.2	07-Jul-2002	Artistic License

 Comments

[»] Is it necessary?
by aldem - Jan 3rd 2001 23:54:15

Hmm... Interesting idea, but (IMHO) it can be done with rsync itself:

$ rsync -a --delete /src/path rsync://dst.host.com/path/

The option `--delete' does exactly what is necessary to make destionation look like source, i.e. all files that does not exist on source side will be deleted on destination side.

So - what for we need the wrapper? :)

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[»] Re: Is it necessary?
by dLux (Balázs Szabó) - Feb 6th 2001 09:08:08


> Hmm... Interesting idea, but (IMHO) it
> can be done with rsync itself:
>
> $ rsync -a --delete /src/path
> rsync://dst.host.com/path/
>
> The option `--delete' does exactly
> what is necessary to make destionation
> look like source, i.e. all files that
> does not exist on source side will be
> deleted on destination side.
>
> So - what for we need the wrapper?
> :)
> It is used for 2 or more-way syncing. Imagine you add and remove files in both sides of the archive. You must keep track the filelist if you want to make difference between the 2 thing: someone added a new file in side A or someone delete a file in side B. In the first case you need to copy the file from A to B, in the second case, you must remove the file from A.

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[»] Re: Is it necessary?
by Egil Moeller - Feb 6th 2001 13:27:07

What would be interresting would be something like a mix of this and CVS merge - that is, that if a file is changed on both sides, and is a text-file, it would merge the changes nicely... Ok, that probably creates a need to keep the original file, too...

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[»] Re: Is it necessary?
by dLux (Balázs Szabó) - Feb 7th 2001 08:27:17


> What would be interresting would be
> something like a mix of this and CVS
> merge - that is, that if a file is
> changed on both sides, and is a
> text-file, it would merge the changes
> nicely... Ok, that probably creates a
> need to keep the original file, too... This is out of the scope of this project :-( It requires more than an rsync wrapper. The perfect solution would be a SyncML client-server implementation.

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