2012-03-24, 20:21
(2012-01-26, 20:02)BULLIT Wrote: How did you accomplish this? If you don't mind me asking.
(2012-03-13, 17:40)DaMizZa Wrote: I'm also curious to know how this was done
For Windows based setups, just use commandline utility ROBOCOPY which you can freely download from Microsoft's site in their Resource Kit packages. It can be used to copy, sync, mirror folders across machines using either drive mappings or UNC paths. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy )
Resource Kit d/l URL: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/det...n&id=17657
(note: that link is for the 32bit version that will run on WinXP and Win2003 / original WHS version).
While I don't do the thumbnail syncing thing myself, I do a number of other things in my XBMC setup using Robocopy and it works like a charm. Just create a batch/cmd file with one Robocopy cmdline for each machine you want to sync with. The command should include the full path to the thumbnail files on one machine and the destination path to the thumbnail folder on another machine. Then use the builtin Windows scheduler service to schedule running that batch/cmd file on any one of your machines (preferably your server if you utilize one) on a regular basis at whatever frequency you like.
Note: While Robocopy itself is a windows executable/utility, the source and/or destination targets that you specify do not have to be Windows machines and can be anything that you address via a UNC name/path.