There's no such option. Rember that Rsync was devised as an efficient way to mirror ftp sites. What you're looking for is unison. Some of the guys on here use it. It's at "http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison", and looks promising for your application.
Tim Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303.682.4917 Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D Longmont, CO 80501 Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), ".\n" ' "There are some who call me.... Tim?" "Jack McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/04/2002 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS) Subject: rsync dir in _both_ directions? Classification: I felt certain there was an option to do this, but I cannot find it. I want to rsync a directory on machine A over to machine B, and then rsync the directory on machine B back to machine A. The idea is this: I read my email using mutt, which is set to save my email in ~/Mail in maildir format. This means that each message is in its own file, instead of being appended to an existing file. Thus, if I backup my email by rsync'ing it to another machine, only the new messages are copied over. Mailboxes need not be. Before you say that rsync only sends changed blocks, and the changed blocks are at the end if the message is appended, remember that mail readers write status into the headers of the messages. If I change the status on the first message in the box (reply to it, delete it), then the ENTIRE mailbox is re-copied. Not so in maildir format. Well, I read my email on my laptop, and it is sometimes necessary to login to a central server to read my email (firewall issues). What I do is to peridocally sync with the central server (which we'll call "server") by: rsync -e ssh -rptlv Mail server:. rsync -e ssh -rptlv server:Mail . I'd like to do this in one command. Is there a switch to rsync that says to make the local and remote directories identical, even if that means transfering data in both directions? -- "There is no parameter that makes it impossible Jack McKinney for you to perform still more excellently." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mario Cuomo, on the lack of a clock in baseball http://www.lorentz.com 1024D/FBED2DAA 4096g/3F93879F 2002 Chicago Cubs magic number: 163
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