From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 8:23:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EEC37C25E for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:23:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e5EFMl168531; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:22:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006141522.e5EFMl168531@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Dan Nelson Cc: Patrik Astrom , Donald Burr , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to keep two directory trees in sync? In-Reply-To: <20000614092617.A1597@dan.emsphone.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:22:47 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:26:17 -0500 Dan Nelson wrote: +------------------ | 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. +------------------ 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 -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message