[Cialug] recomended synchronisation tool (openSuse)

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, afan pasalic <afanpasalic at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> what tool you can recommend to sync local and remote directories, as well as
> 2 remote directories (web servers)? the tool has to pick newer file -
> doesn't matter if it's on local or remote, and overwrite old one. real
> synchronisatioin.
> I tried rsync but doesn't work this way.

You should be able to use rsync if you use the "--update" flag.  That
tells rsync to not overwrite newer files on the receiver.  You'll need
to run it twice though, once for each direction.

Jeff