Re: [MLUG] Best way to sync files from computer to Bengal

[Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

You could continue to use this unison program and mount bengal with fish.

Phillip Kelchen wrote:
> I have a little question:
>
> I want to have a very easy way to back up only changes to certain directories 
> between the Bengal SFTP server from my computer. (I want to put my most 
> recent class files, homework, etc. on Bengal so when I have to use a computer 
> in the lab, up-to-date files are there.) Obviously, it would be easy to just 
> copy directories over and be done with it, but the files are roughly 100MB 
> and that takes quite a while to do with a 40KB/sec upload speed. I'd simply 
> sync the differences by hand but there are a lot of small files and it is a 
> pain to do it manually.
>
> I use a program called Unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) to 
> do that between my laptop and desktop. Unison reads the directories to be 
> synced and then computes which files are changed and updates the changes. It 
> basically is an rsync-like function but has a little different action. I have 
> the laptop directory mounted through NFS on the desktop and Unison does a 
> "local directory" synchronize. It works well (a little slowly as I have to 
> push all the files through the slow 100Mbit NIC on the laptop :( ) but I 
> can't mount an SSH/SFTP share as a local folder like you can with NFS. Unison 
> supports SSH shares but does not support SSH passwords longer than 8 
> characters, and my password must be longer than 8 characters per IATS.    
>
> If anybody has a solution, I'd like to hear it.
>
> Phillip
>
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