Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:40:44 +0200 From: "Yonatan Bokovza" <Yonatan@xpert.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: [OT] file synchronization between two machines Message-ID: <C2DC75EEA405354AA9C03EF5CB8CDE089AA63D@exchange.xpert.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Hardie [mailto:bc979@lafn.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 18:10 > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: [OT] file synchronization between two machines >=20 >=20 >=20 > On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 08:01 US/Pacific, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >=20 > > Hey all. Sorry for the OT question, but here goes. > > > > Anyone know of a tool or method that can check the last modification > > date of two files under these conditions and keep them in sync? >=20 > I've never tried this, but you might give rsync with the -u option a=20 > try (test it first on unimportant files). I believe you=20 > would need to=20 > run it on both machines as it would only update in one direction. rsync (from ports/net/rsync) does not need a peer on the other side. You can think of is as a clever scp- you can copy to/from one server to/from another server, only rsync can sync files on the block level,=20 so it's supposed to be more efficient than merely copying the files = over. For your case, I'd say run a cron job at the firewalled machine to rsync the files over to the other one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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