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From: Jamie Heckford <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 09:29:06 +0100
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On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:22 am, nbari@unixmexico.com wrote:
> the problem when using rsync in both servers is that if data on server =
A
> is  updated, and data on server B is updated at the same time, there is=
 a
> chance to lost data.
>
> If a user writes to a file on server A and then rsyn is executed data w=
ill
> be lost, and so if a users writees on server B an rsync tryis to fecth
> from server A data will be lost
>
> how about usind coda?
> or another tool for replication txt files?
>
>

On server A have a partition/directory dedicated to storing the text file=
s.=20
Export this via NFS to server B.

For backup purposes copy them nightly to server B.

Cheers,

Jamie