offlineCopy

This set of scripts enables a simple sync of a foldertree (with the files of course) if the source and the destination are not accessible at the same time. This can be if, e.g.,

• you are on journey with your laptop and have no internet connection
• you only have limited internet bandwidth
• ...

In either case you need a "find ." dump of your destination filesystem and an moveable temp-directory (e.g. on an external harddisk or an thumbdrive).

Usage

• use "find . > left.list" in source folder
• use "find . > right.list" in destination folder
• adjust settings,php that ** $prefixF1 points to source folder (only needed for creation of temp folder on source machine) ** $prefixF2 points to destination folder (only needed for applying temp folder to destination on target machine) ** $tmpFolder to point to a folder on your external harddisk/thumbdrive
• run "php copyToTmp.php" to copy missing files to temp
• move external harddisk to destination computer
• run "php applyTemp.php"

Best practice is to keep left.list and right.list as well as these scripts on your external drive.

Prerequisites

• PHP 4 or 5
• a mkdir that understands the recursive parameter "-p" (should be available in any linux distribution)
• rsync