On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:48:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > Need to set up scp to copy only newer files and directories between two
> > computers.
> >
> > The basic setup is like:
> > scp -pr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:" host2:/dir
> >
> > What would be a suitable "find command" here?
>
> Erm, newer than *what*? find needs a file as a comparison parameter to
> detetermine whether another file is newer than it or not. I assume you
> mean you want to copy only files from host1 to host2 which exist on both
> machines, with host1 potentially holding newer versions that should get
> synchronized to host2.
>
> Before you break your neck with (absolutely well possible) scripting
> solutions, I suggest you have a look at rsync, which uses SSH for
> transport by default now as well.
> Or maybe check out rdiff-backup, of which a port has just been submitted
> (AFAIK) if a backup is what you're after:
>
> http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/
>
Well, I tried both the standford tarballs and the ports'
stuff. Both fail with this. Does anybody know what I
need to do to fix this? ...Before I scrounge around in
the code, that is... .
thanks guys.
gary
===> Building for librsync-0.9.5.1
cd . && automake --gnu --include-deps Makefile
Makefile.am:21: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am:22: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am:23: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
Makefile.am:24: `#' comment at start of rule is unportable
automake: configure.in: required file `./depcomp' not found
/usr/local/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL
gmake: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/ports/net/librsync.
*** Error code 1
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Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix
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