Re: sitecopy to local storage devices

This one got lost in the depths of spam...

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:49:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I was thinking the sitecopy concept might be useful in purely local
> machine settings, e.g., we want to reduce wear and tear on some types
> of special storage devices, where not only writes, but each access
> could be seen as expensive.
> 
> I suppose one has to crank up an ftp daemon, and can't just do
> SITECOPY_COPY_COMMAND=cp.

This should actually be possible if you configure:

 protocol rsh
 rsh sh
 rcp cp

Perhaps.  Not tried it though :)

> And then there's synce pcp command for writing to WinCE devices, where
> copying each file is a finger crossed big deal. There I would want the
> command ="pcp %from_path %to_path", and a different one for making and
> deleting directories. What I'm saying is too bad there is no [?]
> frontends/backends distinction, where one could specify: shell
> COMMAND_TO_DO MKDIR, RMDIR, PUT, DEL... all with environment
> variables.

There *is* backend distinction, the backends are completely abstract.  
It sounds like more work on the rshdriver would be needed for your WinCE 
thing, but it wouldn't be much more work, I think.

Regards,

joe
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