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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:48:25 -0700
From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:10 +1000:
> I'm looking at building a fileserver and want to mirror the data
> across two systems (if one fails, I can use the other).

Doh, I should of replied sooner.  What you are looking for is probably
Coda.  The home page is at: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/  I have not
used this, but I believe this will solve what you want.  There are
ports in the tree for the server and client parts of the system.

Hope this helps.

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