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Subject: Re: replicating data over 2 servers
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But if the NFS server A comes down, server B will not have access to the
data.

or can i have to NFS servers (server A and B) sharing the same data?

Cheers

> 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
>> will
>> 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
> files.
> Export this via NFS to server B.
>
> For backup purposes copy them nightly to server B.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jamie
>
>