Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:22:47 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Patrik Astrom <patrik@astrom.net>, Donald Burr <dburr@borg-cube.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to keep two directory trees in sync? Message-ID: <200006141522.e5EFMl168531@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000614092617.A1597@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:26:17 -0500 Dan Nelson wrote:
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| rsync is great for one-way synchronization, but doesn't do correct
| two-way synching. For that, you need at least one machine to hold a
| "snapshot" listing of the other machine's files the last time they were
| synched. That way you know whether to copy or delete files that exist
| on only one machine.
|
| I haven't seen any programs that do true n-way synchronization.
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reliable peer-to-peer synch is probably not acheivable without
using something like coda. It's a network file system that supports
disconnected operation. I have no personal experiance with it but
am interested in hearing about any experiance that others may have.
chris
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