From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 06:40:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60DA716A400 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (mail.bathnetworks.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C90D43D45 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:40:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 25487 invoked by uid 510); 31 Mar 2006 07:45:37 +0100 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88/1261. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-4.0/5.0):. Processed in 2.06618 secs); 31 Mar 2006 06:45:37 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(127.0.0.1):SA:0(-4.0/5.0):. Processed in 2.06618 secs Process 25478) Received: from localhost (HELO 192.168.0.50) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@127.0.0.1) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 31 Mar 2006 07:45:35 +0100 Received: from 192.168.0.107 (SquirrelMail authenticated user bsd@bathnetworks.com) by 192.168.0.50 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:45:35 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1253.192.168.0.107.1143787535.squirrel@192.168.0.50> In-Reply-To: References: <20060330184315.F947@ganymede.hub.org> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:45:35 +0100 (BST) From: bsd@bathnetworks.com To: "Marc G. Fournier" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:40:22 -0000 > Unison? It's in ports. > > On 3/30/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ... right now, I'm >> using rsync to do it, but since rsync has to traverse both servers file >> systems to do its comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and >> takes >> awhile to run ... >> >> So, are there any better tools I could be using, instead of rsync? >> >> Thanks ... >> >> ---- >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services Snip Snip You may like to have a look at ggated - its in the ports. Rob