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How to findout if a file has been changed

I need to develop a file synchronization application to sync my files from my local computer to my remote server. My local OS is windows and remote OS is Unix. I can access files on the remote on FTP.

Is file's 'modified date' enough to find out files that has been changed on my computer?

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Maybe, but why reinvent the wheel?

Unison, lftp (for FTP only) or rsync have solved these issues awhile ago.

Yann Ramin  2010-06-24 23:13:16
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You might want to try rsync, which comes with most Linux distributions, and for which there seems to be a Windows version: http://greenmice.info/en/node/34

Bruno  2010-06-24 23:16:14

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