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On 04/11/2008, at 8:35 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:

> At first approach I've thought in rsync+cron, but

unison [1] works really well for us. In some ways it is better than  
some sort of shared SAN type solution since there is no single point  
of failure at the SAN or link to the SAN. Unison is just two way rsync  
so that changes can propagate in both directions between servers.


Ari


[1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

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