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2009-03-20
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i have lots of music on my computer from cds i have bought. i was wondering if there was a way to synchronize my music folder to the n810 without having to manually transfer each file every time. Thank you ;( 
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2009-03-20
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Speaking of synchronizing, I'd be curious how to synchronize two tablets together. I've got two nits, each of which do different things, but have some common elements between them, one of them being GPEcalender (I think that's it's name). Of course, it'd also be nice to synchronize certain folders and other things between them as well. IE, choose what is and isn't synchronized.
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2009-03-21
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grsync (frontend for rsync), unison
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2009-03-21
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout
How does that work? is it like the palm sync.
grsync (frontend for rsync), unison
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2009-03-21
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Originally Posted by FRZ
rsync (and thus grsync) aren't a "sync" in the way you might think of it from a Palm based system (that is; syncing a calendar or a contacts list) -- those tend to have a "merge" concept, since they work on the "record" (calendar entry or contact) level.
How does that work? is it like the palm sync.
Rather rsync works on a file level, and similar to the Palm in some ways (think "Palm overwrites computer" and "computer overwrites palm") -- there is a concept of a primary file that will win in a tie. Effectively; rsync works such that a set of files are copied remotely. From there, there is additional flags to indicate "remove a remote file if a local version doesn't exist", and "newer overwrites older".
You can specify that the remote copy is the primary, or that the local copy is - and then things are made to match up according to your preferences.
You should really check a "man rsync" in google for a reference page to go through a lot of the available knobs that can be turned ... (and make a copy of your files before experimenting ....).
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2009-03-21
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Originally Posted by fattomm
Will do, thanks.
rsync (and thus grsync) aren't a "sync" in the way you might think of it from a Palm based system (that is; syncing a calendar or a contacts list) -- those tend to have a "merge" concept, since they work on the "record" (calendar entry or contact) level.
Rather rsync works on a file level, and similar to the Palm in some ways (think "Palm overwrites computer" and "computer overwrites palm") -- there is a concept of a primary file that will win in a tie. Effectively; rsync works such that a set of files are copied remotely. From there, there is additional flags to indicate "remove a remote file if a local version doesn't exist", and "newer overwrites older".
You can specify that the remote copy is the primary, or that the local copy is - and then things are made to match up according to your preferences.
You should really check a "man rsync" in google for a reference page to go through a lot of the available knobs that can be turned ... (and make a copy of your files before experimenting ....).
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2009-03-21
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Originally Posted by FRZ
You know, I just looked at the man page again, and there is a ridiculous number of knobs (does the world really need a rsync daemon mode?).
Will do, thanks.
For example; to keep an up-to-date backup of my music, I do a
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rsync --delete -val remotehost:/media/music .
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--delete # delete local versions of files that have been removed remotely -v # verbose - I like chatty, you mayn't -a # "archive" - preserve owner/group/timestamps -l # if the remote is a soft-link, make the soft-link locally
The syntax is a lot like cp(1) or scp(1) - and rsync is fairly simple if apprached from that standpoint. (I put all the above into a shell script, and run it whenever I made changes to my music collection).
You might want to look at the "--exclude=" flag, to skip sub-directories and whatnot that you may not want to include in the copy ....
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2009-03-21
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Originally Posted by fattomm
Yes. E.g. you evade race conditions possibly occuring via cron.
(does the world really need a rsync daemon mode?).
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