On 25-07-2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --9JSHP372f+2dzJ8X > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:23:46PM +0200, Dvorzhetsky wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First I'll explain the situation: I have an archive folder with images, = >=20 >> text and other type of files. I used to backup this folder from time to = >=20 >> time but at some point I stop doing that and got confuse (or messy:) and = >=20 >> start to edit files in the backup and/or to add files to the 'current' = >=20 >> folder. >> >> I'd like to rationalized that by synchronizing the backup and current in = >=20 >> both way: >> >> - keeping only the version of the files which have been the most =20 >> recently changed. >> - if a file or a subfolder is present in one folder and not the other =20 >> I'd like to always keep it. >> >> I look into mann rsync but I'm always asked to choose one source and one = >=20 >> destination, which is obviously not what I want to do. Is there a way to = >=20 >> do that with rsync? How? >> >> Maybe with another software? > > you could get unison to do it I think. That seems to fit the model of > what it does. I use it, but it's been so long since I started using > it, that I don't know how it reacts the first time you use > it. Certainly worth a shot though. >
Unison when first running will give you a pretty good choice folloing your criteria... But this is not for sure. You can tune the way it do it through option like -prefer and -preferpartial... Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]