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In article <33259649.41C67EA6@math.umd.edu>,
Jonathan Poritz  <kaleb@math.umd.edu> wrote:
>... I would like to be able to go home
>at night, turn on PPP via modem to the Sun in my office, type
>"reconcile" or somesuch, and after a few minutes have my home
>directory at home look exactly like it looked a few minutes
>ago at school.

If math runs AFS like Glue and WAM do, just run AFS on your machine
at home, then your entire home directory can be accessed from home as
though it were local. Then you can just cd to /afs/math.umd.edu/foo/bar
and work in that directory as though it were on your machine at home.

Over a phone line, this is a bit slow for serious work, but you can
always just do

cp -ua /afs/math.umd.edu/foo/bar .

on your Linux box and go have a refreshing beverage. Or just run it
on cron. I can send you a find command that will delete obsolete
mirrors from your Linux box.

If math doesn't run AFS, it might be on NFS, in which case you might
be able to convince your sysadmin to let you mount it from home.

Judah

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>I wonder if anyone has or knows of some scripts which will
>reconcile two (pieces of) UNIX filesystems over a network
>connection.  The situation is that I run Linux on a machine
>at home but I also have a Sun running SunOS 4.1.something
>in my office at school, and I would like to be able to go home
>at night, turn on PPP via modem to the Sun in my office, type
>"reconcile" or somesuch, and after a few minutes have my home
>directory at home look exactly like it looked a few minutes
>ago at school.
>

Use ncftp from ftp.probe.net. It has a nice feature 

get -R <directory>

This scans <directory> recursively, and gets all the files that are
NEWER than the files on your local machine. It has a number of other
features too.

I use this every day to "reconcile" directories on my home and office
machines. 

Good luck

-Boris

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Boris A. Veytsman (boris@plmsc.psu.edu) wrote:

: Use ncftp from ftp.probe.net. It has a nice feature 

: get -R <directory>

Or get the "mirror" package. This does the same thing, but checks for dates,
file-sizes, and so on. The protocol used is ftp.

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Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Poritz <kaleb@math.umd.edu> schrieb im Beitrag
<33259649.41C67EA6@math.umd.edu>...
> I wonder if anyone has or knows of some scripts which will
> reconcile two (pieces of) UNIX filesystems over a network
> connection.  The situation is that I run Linux on a machine
> at home but I also have a Sun running SunOS 4.1.something
> in my office at school, and I would like to be able to go home
> at night, turn on PPP via modem to the Sun in my office, type
> "reconcile" or somesuch, and after a few minutes have my home
> directory at home look exactly like it looked a few minutes
> ago at school.
> 
> I know, I could tar and compress my whole home directory every
> time I logout at school and simply download the whole thing,
> but we're talking many megabytes and my modem is not *that* fast.
> 
> Any ideas?

1. nfs : mount your drive at school over modem-nfs line, this is not realy
fast
2. remsh/rsh : you have to setup an gcc environment which is possible to
compile for
    your home-maschine and your school-maschine, then your can say 
    " rsh school make -DHOME-CPU "
   in your makefile you have to test for wich CPU you want to compile
3. rdist : you can use rdist for copying a filetree from one maschine to an
other

So long, Clemens

Some kind of FTP mirroring software might do the trick too.
I imagine they try to minimize the files transferred to make
one archive a mirror of the other.  Just an idea--I have
never done FTP mirroring.

-Rob
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