Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:16:40 -0600 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Syncing Two Dirs With Rsync Message-ID: <cdf3a6913ccdb206c80ed7a57965b3d4@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <50EF0F1F.8080904@tundraware.com> References: <50EF0F1F.8080904@tundraware.com>
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On 2013-01-10 12:57, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I have used rsync for many years to make sure a destination
> machine:directory is kept up-to-date with some source master
> directory.
>
> I now need to find a way to keep two different machine:dirs
> in sync with each other. But for any given file, I don't know
> which of these is newer so I don't know "which way" to sync.
>
> For example given:
>
> machineA::/dir/foo machineB:/dir/foo
> machineA::/dir/bar machineB:/dir/bar
>
> Say the machineA has the newest foo, but machineB has the
> newest bar. At the end of syncing, I want both machines
> to have the latest copies of everything.
>
> I'm guessing there's a way to do this with rsync but I'm kind
> of stumped.
>
> Ideas?
Never tried it before, but I would think you could use the -u option to
skip newer files, and do a push followed by a pull so that the newer
files from each side get copied. However you wouldn't be able to use
the delete files option as new files could get deleted instead of
copied, depending on which side ran first.
--
Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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