Greetings all,
due to my disorganized past, I have two servers with two different versions of backups: backup_reference and backup_old. I would like to synchronize them with the following rules:
(i) matching files are deleted only from the backup_old and (ii) non-matching files are left on the respective servers.
I had found an excellent tool searchmyfiles by NirSoft, which does exactly that - it finds the matching files, enables sorting them by location, selecting the desired location, and deleting the selected files. Unfortunately, it is Windows only, does not work over network, and as documented elsewhere on the forum (i) when I mount the server on the Windows machine under NFS I cannot modify the directories/files, and (ii) trying SMB, I have the dreaded "The network path name was not found", with which I have been unsuccessfully fighting for past few days.
I was initially thinking about rsync(1), but either it cannot be done or I am not smart enough to figure it out.
Any help would be appreciated.
Kindest regards,
M
due to my disorganized past, I have two servers with two different versions of backups: backup_reference and backup_old. I would like to synchronize them with the following rules:
(i) matching files are deleted only from the backup_old and (ii) non-matching files are left on the respective servers.
I had found an excellent tool searchmyfiles by NirSoft, which does exactly that - it finds the matching files, enables sorting them by location, selecting the desired location, and deleting the selected files. Unfortunately, it is Windows only, does not work over network, and as documented elsewhere on the forum (i) when I mount the server on the Windows machine under NFS I cannot modify the directories/files, and (ii) trying SMB, I have the dreaded "The network path name was not found", with which I have been unsuccessfully fighting for past few days.
I was initially thinking about rsync(1), but either it cannot be done or I am not smart enough to figure it out.
Any help would be appreciated.
Kindest regards,
M