Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:35:52 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: homedir mirroring nightly, with an nfs overlay? Message-ID: <199603121635.KAA19228@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199603112104.QAA08491@neon.Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Mar 11, 96 04:04:47 pm
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> I've got two systems up now that I have home directories on, but one of > them will not always be operating in FreeBSD. The machine "neon" is my desktop > machine, and houses my home directory. The machine "Glock" is a machine that > can always be counted on to be in FreeBSD, and I'd like to have access to my > home directory there as well. What I want to do is mirror the files from neon > to Glock nightly, so that I have a <24 hour old copy on Glock to use in case > the copy on neon is not available due to me being in another operating system. > > What I'd like to do is have an nfs mounted copy available when neon is up, > but have the local copy mirrored the previous night available in the event that > neon times out. Is this possible with amd or standard nfs mounting? Thanks > for any suggestions! If you do not restrict yourself to nfs, which is probably a bad thing to do, remember that "rdist" is your friend. :-) I used to use it in years long ago to do essentially what you are doing. ... JG
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