rsync help

Dan Lund situationalawareness at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 14:28:04 MST 2007


There's an application called unison that'll take care of
bidirectional synchronizations pretty easily.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

On 11/6/07, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to sync a folder on 2 servers, sounds easy, but the catch is that
> they basically have to mirror each other. So if I deleted a file on one it
> goes away on the other, but If I add a file it shows up on both. The catch
> is that a file could be added or deleted form either system. Is there a way
> to make rsync catch these changes and make sure they get mirrored? The other
> option I am thinking about involves running a script that copies new files
> to a "holding area" and point both servers to the holding area for the sync
> source. the downside to that is I don't know how to handle deletes. I
> haven't had much luck with Google on this yet, but I am still looking.
>
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Dan Lund

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