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Date:      Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:08:21 -0800
From:      Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Synchronizing directory hierarchies via SFTP
Message-ID:  <CADy1Ce4Obfmu2QVKT-E-ZzwELSJckbKrYZSeqdY1Qgo4Mp8kdw@mail.gmail.com>
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Apologies for coming late to this...

I see there's been a substantial amount of discussion regarding this,
and you seem to have a satisfactory resolution.

However, for the sake of completeness, there is a utility in the ports
tree called unison which seems to fit your exact requirements. It
works with SSH, and comes with or without GUI.

Kurt

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Patrick Hess <patrickhess@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what command-line tool could you recommend if you were in the need
> to synchronize a complete directory hierarchy from your local system
> to a remote server via SFTP? In the past, I was always able to use
> tools like cpdup or rsync for this kind of job, but this time SFTP
> is the only game in town.  :-(
>
> I actually had a hard time finding anything useful. The only thing
> that came up so far is https://www.csync.org, which compiles fine on
> FreeBSD and does exactly what I need. Unfortunately, there doesn't
> seem to exist a port yet. There's net/csync2, but that's completely
> unrelated to www.csync.org.
>
> So before I go and create a new port for csync, is there anything
> similar already available in the ports?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Patrick
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