On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 08:13:23PM +0200, EV wrote: > 2007-07-28: Nick dixit: > > ... Is there any sensible way of synchronising my podcasts > > using rsync? LKarmaFS presumably would help here, but I imagine the > > directory structure being different on my PC get in the way of > > rsync. > > Can you make more explicit your point? i.e., why and how do you > intend to use rsync? Have you ever tried rsinc with lkarmafs?
Sure. I have a directory on my PC called ~/music/feeds into which all of the podcasts I listen to conveniently download themselves, and using cron-magic, subsequently are removed after a couple of weeks. I'd like ideally to have the Karma automatically sync up to this directory, so whenever it was plugged in the new podcasts were downloaded to the Karma, and the old ones would be removed, as they would longer exist in ~/music/feeds In a regular filesystem rsync should do this, with the --delete flag. However, as I understand it, the directory structure for source and destination has to be the same for rsync (that's how it's designed, after all), whereas the directory structure given by LKarmaFS would necessarily be different to ~/music/feeds So, what it boils down to, basically, is LKarmaFS could be persuaded to keep a specific folder of files not sorted into directories according to their metadata, but just as they were copied, I think I could use rsync to synchronise my podcast directory with the Karma. Which would be cool. Hopefully I'm overlooking something which would make this simpler (other than using banshee or something, 'cos that's no fun). > I've never tested rsinc with a lkarmafs-mounted file system and I > fear some of the many advances features of rsync may break > lkarmafs. To my (limited) knowledge using rsync locally doesn't use any particularly advanced filesystem features, but by default just compares the file size & date (or optionally a checksum of some description) to do its stuff. > ... But, as I've said in a previous message, I plan to do > some work on lkarmafs this summer and I could include trying to > fix possible rsync-related bugs. Ooh, what are you planning to work on? > Best, > EV. Thanks guys, -Nick -- GPG Key : www.njw.me.uk/nick.gpg.asc GPG Key ID: 04E4653F GPG Fingerprint: 9732 D7C7 A441 D79E FDF0 94F6 1F48 5674 04E4 653F
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