SPUG: remote synchronization

[Andrew Sweger]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Mako Hill wrote:

> rsync great it but it's really only works one direction. If you want
> true bidirectional support you're going to need to need to look
> elsewhere.

This isn't necessarily true. The update option on rsync will only
overwrite files with newer versions. The down side is that deletions
either only propogate in one direction or not at all.

rsync -aru --delete /master secondary.host.com:/store
rsync -aru secondary.host.com:/store /master

I've even used this to keep two cvsroot's sync'd. (Yes, there are
risks. But you didn't get into computers because it's safe, right?)

So, you're right, it's not really true bidirectional support. But the hack
comes in handy at times.

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.


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