I tried lots of sync/backup apps, got bored with the constant errors,
followed the advice given to me on this board, and started using rsync
(a UNIX utility that ships pre-installed on your Mac). I haven't
looked back. It is incredibly reliable and solid, amazingingly fast,
can back up across the internet via SSH (again, very fast) and is not
that difficult to understand. You can even wrap the commands up in an
AppleScript doscript so you don't need to tinker in the terminal.
Here's an example. I'm no expert but this works for me. Other more
experienced users might want to chime in.
You have a folder on your Desktop test1 that you want to Backup to
another folder on your Desktop test2 (just an example!!)
Open Terminal
Type the below (this will move the whole Folder test1 into test2 and
show you what's happening in the Terminal):
rsync -avz /Users/yourUserName/Desktop/test1\ /Users/yourUserName/
Desktop/test2
If you want it to Delete any files that are in the Destination that
are not in the source, add --delete:
rsync -avz --delete /Users/yourUserName/Desktop/test1\ /Users/
yourUserName/Desktop/test2
If you want to build a list of Excluded files and folders, create a
file with the items listed in it each on a single line, then add this
(I've put mine on the Desktop again for this example and called the
file: "rync_excludes"):
rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from=/Users/yourUserName/Desktop/
rync_excludes /Users/yourUserName/Desktop/test1 /Users/yourUserName/
Desktop/test2
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention one other thing - it's free!
Pat
On Dec 1, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Jan Pieter Kunst wrote:
2007/11/30, David Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Nov 26, 2007 12:14 PM, TjL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking at SyncTogether for LAN syncing of Yojimbo
I bought it the day it was launched - before there was a trial
version
- and it has never worked.
Every attempt at sync ends with a crash. Sometimes it just quits,
other times I get this error message:
http://homepage.mac.com/dhmorton/images/synctogether.jpg
which doesn't really inspire confidence in the code.
That's a pretty disturbing error message.
For me SyncTogether works as advertised without problems (in 10.4).
JP
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