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Can you share a quick howto for people who may not be as familiar with how to use cwrsync? Might help some other people out!

Just check out this faq section on the cwrsync website.

There are guides on how to setup connections between different server and client setups (win/win, win/linux, etc.) and also with or without SSH.

Instructions are very easy to follow.

I use cwrsync on my windows laptop to take backups of my website hosted on a remote linux server. Once I installed the client software, all I had to do was to edit the batch file that came with it called "cwrsync.cmd" (which sets the paths for rsync and ssh, etc.) and add the line at the end

Code:

rsync -av 'ssh -p 1234 -i sshkeypath' sourcefolderpath targetfolderpath

Replace 1234 with your ssh port and in folder and file paths, in windows, for c:\backup\ use this format instead: /cygdrive/c/backup/

I run this command file every once in a while manually. (My website is already being backed up on two different sites online, automatically, so the local backup is an absolute worst case scenario) But in win 7 you could use start/control panel/system&security/administrative panel/task scheduler to automate it.

And also keep in mind that rsync is one way. But for thumbs folder we need it to be two way. So just replicate that line in the same batch file and switch the source and target folder paths. And do not use the --delete option.

**UPDATE**

I just realized that since we are doing a two way sync and files might have been modified at either the server or client, we need to use option -u as well. Because that will prevent a destination file to be overwritten if the destination file has been modified.

--I am assuming XBMC overwrites a cache file when the artwork is changed. Even if it doesn't this option won't hurt. --

Scenario: Client 1 changes fanart for movie A. Client 1 rsyncs with server. The cache file for movie A's fanart is updated on the server.
Client 2 rsyncs with server. Let's say it does client-to-server sync first. Both the client and the server has the same cache file for movie A's fanart. But the one on the server is modified last and is the one we want. Without the -u option, client-to-server sync will overwrite the cache file on the server and we revert the recently changed fanart to the old one. But with the option -u, during client-to-server sync, cache file is ignored, and when it's time for server-to-client sync for client 2, the local cache file gets overwritten by the one on the server because it is a later revision, which is exactly what we want.

So the batch file code will look something like this:

Code:

rsync -avu 'ssh -p 1234 -i sshkeypath' clientfolderpath serverfolderpath
rsync -avu 'ssh -p 1234 -i sshkeypath' serverfolderpath clientfolderpath