From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 15:26:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFCD16A403 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:26:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jay@splitstreams.com) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D6A13C465 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:26:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jay@splitstreams.com) Received: from [209.180.20.178] (monkey.oss.uswest.net [209.180.20.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1037C8228 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:57:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4613BCCF.2000909@splitstreams.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:57:19 -0500 From: Jay Deiman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070404162447.j40cttjn28s0sgg8@zeus.arrishq.net> In-Reply-To: <20070404162447.j40cttjn28s0sgg8@zeus.arrishq.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Network Filesystem for BSD / Linux environment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:26:41 -0000 Tommy Scheunemann wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm running 2 server, one with FreeBSD and one with Linux. Now I want to > synchronize data between the 2 servers, over the internet so using NFS > isn't a solution at all. > Are there other possible ways of doing it ? AFS still seems in a > development state and Rsync over SSH might be another possible way of > doing it - would be just good if everything runs in background without > any interaction. > > Thanks in advance for any help If you actually want to "sync" the data between 2 machines, NFS/AFS isn't really going to do anything for you. It would just grant access to the information remotely. If you truly want to sync the data, rsync over ssh is the way to go. It's pretty easy to get it running in the background, just set up a cron job that runs at your desired interval (once a day, twice a day, every 5 minutes, etc.) to do the dirty work. That should sync you up without any interaction.