Release GRsync


mcobit

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Here is GRsync:


http://www.opbyte.it/grsync


grsync.png



Get the PND here:


http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,115,340


This PND includes rsync:


http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
 
Great! Thank you!


I use this already on my Desktop and Netbook, and now i can even keep some directories on my Pandora and my Desktop-PC in sync!
 
I've tried it, it works great for me.


- local syncing (eg. from one sd-card to another, or usb-stick to sd-card) works out-of-the-box


- remote syncing: to make this work with my setup (rsync called by ssh(d), as default by my Debian Squeeze-Desktop-PC), it required a little bit of work, because Angstrom seems to have no "ssh-askpass"-binary in the "dropbear"- or one of the "openssh"-packages.


The following steps were needed (WARNING: do this only, if you're know what you are doing!):


Step 1) remove dropbear and install openssh (as root, or use sudo)



Code:
opkg --force-depends dropbear

opkg install openssh


Step 2) as the user, who will be using grsync: generate a ssh-key on the pandora using ssh-keygen (from openssh) without any password and copy/append the resulting public-key to the remote-pc's ssh-"authorized_keys"-file.


Now it's possible to use password-less ssh from pandora to remote-pc and (g)rsyncing to remote-pc using ssh works perfect aswell.
 
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Nice to hear, maybe it would be an option to include openssh into the pnd, but that would add some Megabytes.
 
Nice to hear, maybe it would be an option to include openssh into the pnd, but that would add some Megabytes.
I don't think that would help, because the only "problem" is a missing "ssh-askpass" for the pandora-os.


Maybe someone can port a "ssh-askpass"-binary to the pandora?


Forgot to mention: i did not try syncing to a remote-pc running rsync in daemon mode or using rsh (not the ssh-variant), so that might aswell work out-of-the-box!
 
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