Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:33:31 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ... Message-ID: <20070207103331.7c7427ad.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <45C9E8E1.9040601@mac.com> References: <7EFF8D531C0D5647031D80AB@ganymede.hub.org> <45C9E8E1.9040601@mac.com>
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In response to Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on ServerB > > ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is that > > it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to compare, putting a good > > load on each of them ... > > > > Is there anything out there that ppl are using successfully that just looks > > at ServerA, and dumps across those files that have changed since the last sync? > > ServerB will never have any changes made to it, other then what ServerA sends > > across ... > > Rsync is about as good as it reasonably gets, short of putting everything > explicitly under version control (ie, in SVN or CVS). If you do put the tree > of stuff under VC, doing an update operation on ServerB will only need to > fetch the deltas made since the last update, without doing a comparison of the > unchanged files or placing much load on ServerA. <musing> You know, it'd be cool if there was some way to hook rsync in to FAM (or a similar utility). I found some discussion about this on the rsync mailing list. The response seems to indicate that it's more work than it seems. I wish I had time to investigate this, as it sounds like an interesting project. </musing> -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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