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Synchronize customized .mac homepages with sitecopy
Authored by: jjgb on Mar 19, '03 05:10:27PM

I think that your program (iMirror) and sitecopy are targeted to different audiences. Sitecopy offers much more flexibility when dealing with multiple sites. It also does a great job when you do not want all the files in your site synchronized (for example, you might choose to ignore files with a particular extension).

From the sitecopy page comparison between rsync and sitecopy:

rsync can handle changes to existing files much more efficiently than sitecopy, by only transmitting the differences: sitecopy will always completely re-upload changed files. On the other hand; sitecopy can handle moving and renaming files more efficiently than rsync; it can simply move or rename the file on the server, whereas rsync will completely re-upload the file when it is moved or renamed.

Finally, I find sitecopy particularly useful because I have a single shell command to regenerate my site (using a couple of perl scripts), and update the differences in the server. I am also planning to incorporate my weblog rebuilding (with Movable Type) and uploading into the same script.



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