On 6/21/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Siju George wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >To start with. > > > >I have a set of folders "A" on a computer "Sarge1". > >I have another computer "Sarge2" with a copy of the same set of folders "A".. > > > >The contents of the set of folders "A" on "Sarge1" gets deleted, > >updated, modified continously. > >How can I get those changes on to the set of folders "A" on "Sarge2" > >as soon as possible?? > > > >i.e The changes to "A" on "Sarge1" should be propogated to "A" on > >"Sarge2" as quickly as possible. > > > >is running > > > >#rsync -avz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:A [EMAIL PROTECTED]:A > > > >continously as a cronjob the best way to do it??? > > > >if so how will I give the password for "root" on "Sarge1" while > >executing the above command in a shell script as a cronjob?? > > > >Could someone please guide me if there are better ways of doing the > >propagation of changes?? > > > >Thankyou so much > > > >Kind Regards > > > >Siju > > > > > > > If the machines are very remote then rsync from a cron job is probably > the best way, yep. Look at the ssh manpage about using public-key > authentication so you don't need to type the password (simply create a > key with no password). > > If, however, the machines are really close together you might like to > look into using NFS instead. That was you only need to keep the files on > Sarge1 and mount A onto Sarge2, which will _always_ have the >latest version. >
Thanks a lot for the reply Chris :-) I want to have two set of copies actually for redundancy. How are the debian mirror sites kept synchronized?? I just wonder!! Kind regards Siju
