Rsync file synchronization free#

Since the original question also involves a desktop and laptop and example involving music files (hence he's probably using a GUI), I'd also mention one of the best bi-directional, multi-platform, free and open source programs to date: FreeFileSync. I guess this is only possible with a database and track of operations :P So, sometimes, server will have files that were deleted with a notebook sync, for example and then, when I run a sync with my desktop (where the deleted server files still exist on) I want these files to be deleted and not to be copied again to the server. If I want to delete server files on a syn, when local files have been deleted, it works, but if, for some reason (explained after) I have some files that aren't in the server but exist locally and they were deleted, I want locally to remove them and not server copied (as it happens). In rsync there is -delete and -delete-after options to help accomplish what I want but thing is, it doesn't work on a 2-way-sync. If there are deletions, it doesn't do anything. This works very well only if there are just updates or new files on the future. When I make sync-music, it first gets all the diffs from server to local and then the opposite, sending all the diffs from local to server.

Rsync -avzru /media/Incoming/music/ server:/media/10001/music/ Rsync -avzru server:/media/10001/music/ /media/Incoming/music/ I now run something like this on a Makefile: get-music: I have a folder a/ and a remote folder A/.

Rsync file synchronization