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#83984 - 27/03/2002 15:10 Sychronising 2 Empegs
bodybag
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Registered: 07/03/2002
Posts: 504
Loc: Southern California
How are those of you with 2 Empegs keeping thier content synch'd. I want both of my players to be identical but haven't figured out how to do it without making identical changes on them both separately in Emplode.
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#83985 - 27/03/2002 15:16 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: bodybag]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31578
Loc: Seattle, WA
There is a Clone utility that works over USB included with the software. It will clone the lower-serial-number to the higher-serial-number.

Takes forever though.

How's Jemplode doing in this area?
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#83986 - 27/03/2002 15:22 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: tfabris]
bodybag
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Registered: 07/03/2002
Posts: 504
Loc: Southern California
Never used Jemplode before, does it have a faster option?
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#83987 - 27/03/2002 19:56 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: bodybag]
justinlarsen
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Registered: 31/12/2001
Posts: 1109
Loc: Petaluma, CA
tony only usb? i thought u could do ethernet as well


Edited by justinlarsen (27/03/2002 19:56)
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#83988 - 27/03/2002 21:56 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: justinlarsen]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31578
Loc: Seattle, WA
Yeah, the ethernet version is here, but you need to know Linux to do it.
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#83989 - 27/03/2002 22:54 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: tfabris]
mschrag
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Registered: 09/09/2000
Posts: 2303
Loc: Richmond, VA
jEmplode can be used to copy tunes across Empegs, but keeping them in sync is not it's forte (right now anyway). All the data is there to pull this off though ...

Mike

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#83990 - 28/03/2002 04:43 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: tfabris]
pgrzelak
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Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Greetings!

Once the empegs are synced for the first time using clone, does it sync deltas or try the whole thing again? I am guessing the whole thing, which would take far too long.

Any time I need to do this, I usually do surgery and copy drive to drive. That still takes a while, but is far better than USB or ethernet throughput.

I know people were working on a hard drive sync. Has there been any progress with that?
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#83991 - 28/03/2002 08:19 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: pgrzelak]
Roger
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Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5682
Loc: London, UK
The empegClone utility does a complete copy. Not sure about jEmplode.
More to the point, empegClone only works over USB, and only works from lower serial numbers to higher.

There's two different ways to do it listed at my website: netcat and rsync. The first also does a complete copy, but is a darn sight quicker than empegClone. The second does a proper synchronisation, and is very quick. I use it maybe two or three times a week.
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#83992 - 28/03/2002 08:24 Re: Sychronising 2 Empegs [Re: bodybag]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14485
Loc: Canada
I use "mirrordir" over FTP from a separate Linux box.

Works like a charm.

-ml

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