I have written a few batch files to do this at work. It is time for me to rewrite them into a more robust application or find a replacement solution because several departments at my work place have adopted these scripts as SOP. I doubt there exists a freeware program with a small footprint that does what I need quickly and with command-line options available.
The scripts...
* grab the latest SFV file with SHA1 hashes
* iterate through the files listed and copy them locally from a shared drive if they do not exist locally.
* if they exist locally, it computes the SHA1 hash of the local file. If they are different, it overwrites the local file with the network file.
* shows a results screen
* user re-executes script if any changes were made.
* if third time in a row scripts still show diffs, then they call for help.
This must be able to run from the command-line.
Yes this is easy to script up. That is why I already did this. However, not that it is being used as SOP it needs to be more than some quick scripts. I need to add versioning, insure the shared network files are correct, error handling, logging, etc. Everything that real world applications need in the corporate environment.
If I can't find anything that does 95%+ of what I need, I will be writing it and releasing it as freeware.
All of the file synchronization applications are too heavy and full of features I don't need. The files are only available on a SMB shared drive and I can't use anything else like a rsync server, etc.
I am almost certain that I will need to write this myself to get just what I want, but I figured I'd might as well throw this out there to see if anybody knows of such a tool or, more likely, how interested people are in getting such a utility built.
