Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:58:54 +0100 (MET) From: Martin Machacek <mm@i.cz> To: net@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Synchronizing two (or more) machines over the network Message-ID: <XFMail.000217155854.mm@i.cz> In-Reply-To: <200002161938.OAA78246@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On 16-Feb-00 Garrett Wollman wrote:
> Does anyone have a good method for keeping two machines absolutely
> identical-but-for-a-few-symlinks that works reliably and securely over
> the network? I have looked at rdist6, but it doesn't understand file
> flags. (NFS is out of the running, since it is neither reliable nor
> secure.) Are there any other options that people have found to their
> liking?
I'm using rsync over ssh together with mtree. I first build completely image
of target filesystem on the master machine (incorporating all target machine
specific modifications) then rsync it to the target and finally run mtree to fix
ownership and permissions. The whole process is driven by relatively
primitive shell script. Works fine for a network of cca. 40 nameservers,
mailservers and firewalls running FreeBSD 2.2.8 and 3.3.
Martin
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