hi barry, On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 01:33:43PM -0500, Barry Mathieu wrote: > I think rsync is the correct application for such a task; is this > correct? I don't want try to redesign the wheel and I think many others > have passed this way before. I'm a bit confused by the rysnc > documentation - it doesn't appear to be used for interfacing using SMB.
i can think of a couple ways of doing this, depending on your
desired level of security, and whether or not you want to
regularly automate it or just manually run it every now and then.
a ] share your entire xp drive (ew...), smbmount it onto the woody
box, and then just rsync -a between two directories
(i wouldn't recommend that as an automated solution, leaving your
entire drive shared is bad...)
b ] install cygwin on your xp box, and through cygwin install rsync,
cron, and ssh. then, rsync the directories when you want, just
like you would on another linux box (this assumes you know how
crontabs work if you want to automate it).
(probably the better solution, but if you want to automate it you'll
need to learn about pubkey authentication)
hth
sean
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