On Jun 21, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:51 -0400, Reed O'Brien wrote: >> On Jun 20, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Richard Querin wrote: >> >>> I'm interested in writing a quick script that would run a diff-type >>> command that would compare a local directory to a remote one to >>> identify the changes in the files within that directory. >>> >>> I was initially thinking that I would maybe use the linux diff >>> command >>> in conjunction with the wget command (or something similar) to >>> create >>> a local copy but that involves downloading files. Is there any >>> way in >>> python to do a similar thing but without having to download a >>> copy of >>> the remote files/directories? >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >> >> At first blush it sounds to me like you want rsync, as has been >> pointed out. If on of the systems is running an OS that doesn't come >> with rsync... I have used http://www.vdesmedt.com/~vds2212/rsync.html >> to achieve the same result. >> > > I downloaded the file from the web site, but was disappointed to see > that there appears to be no support for any network transport. It > simply operates on locally mounted directories. I only did a cursory > scan of the source code. Did I miss something? > > Certainly the program provides useful example code for file > comparisons, > but it does not appear to directly support any kind of remote > processing. > > When I need to deal with Windows computers, I sorely feel the lack of > ssh, rsync, and sshfs. >
It has been a couple years since I have used it, but I am sure I did it across a network via SMB. I no longer work there, so I unfortunately don't have access to what I did. I remember it being over a network because the www server was separate from the backup server. I may have done it on the Windows machine and had the remote N*X SMB mounted as a network drive. I think I also used putty on a Windows server to make an ssh tunnel to work over at another project. To my great fortune I don't currently have to deal with windows at all (currently). ~r _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
