Synchronzing Folders

[crokett]

The Linux box at work is set up and I have been using it for the last week. I am planning to finally push the data over from XP tomorrow. After I do this I need an app that will run on the laptop and keep the data folders in synch (I have a local drive letter on the laptop mapped to a network share on the Linux machine. I think there was a thread on this a while back that mentioned some good apps but can't find it. Anyhoo, ideally I can schedule it, it will only do an incremental synch after the intial data copy and it has to run on Windows. Oh yeah, free is good too. The Windows briefcase isn't going to get this done for me.

[Bigbit]

The Linux box at work is set up and I have been using it for the last week. I am planning to finally push the data over from XP tomorrow. After I do this I need an app that will run on the laptop and keep the data folders in synch (I have a local drive letter on the laptop mapped to a network share on the Linux machine. I think there was a thread on this a while back that mentioned some good apps but can't find it. Anyhoo, ideally I can schedule it, it will only do an incremental synch after the intial data copy and it has to run on Windows. Oh yeah, free is good too. The Windows briefcase isn't going to get this done for me.

I use FileSync by Fileware.com. It's shareware. Pretty happy with it.

[LinuxRandal]

I really don't know Windows well enough and right now have a bunch of stuff going on (working from a REALLY pos keyboard out of dad's crp, due to mom's wireless keyboard and mouse crping out and her asking me about computer problems)\

\screwy keyboards

rsync is a good Linux app

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp

[crokett]

The problem with doing it from the linux side is I would need to share a drive on XP and corporate won't let me do that. Security reasons. The way I have the Linux machine classified under security I get around that restriction.

[LinuxRandal]

The link above is Rsync for Windows, can't you use this from the Windows side?

[cgallery]

The link above is Rsync for Windows, can't you use this from the Windows side?

Google CWRsync. It is also a nice port. But all command-line (the way I like it )

[crokett]

The link above is Rsync for Windows, can't you use this from the Windows side?

Yeah I just set it up. When I posted previously I didn't realize it was a wrapper for rsync. I will see if it works.

[ntmatter]

Do you need to actually sync? If you just want to store the files on the Linux box and access them easily in XP, how about redirecting your XP folder locations to the network locations? I keep all of my music on a server with redundant hard drives and external backup, and just redirect my "My Music" folder to "\\server\my_music". If you don't have permanent connectivity, configure your "My Music" folder to synchronize files for offline use, and you'll have a local folder that stays in sync with an external network location.