what about scripts running every 30 seconds on each machine, thats lighter then rsync just to compare.. eg.
---- Server1 ---- ls -lR /* > ~/files1 scp files1 SERVER2:~ ---- Server2 ---- ls -lR /* > ~/files2 (do a diff command here on files1 vs. files2) (if different, then run rsync -u) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Abernethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <rsync@lists.samba.org> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 1:16 PM Subject: RE: Can rsync monitor a file system? > To monitor the file system, you have to have something down inside > the file system. Unless you know what you are doing, you don't really > want to mess around with any such. Any slipup .... > > "copy each others data" > Now if this means "an update to one implies an update to the other" > that should be doable. > If it means "a delete from one imples a delete from both" > (me, I'm "brave and daring" but I wouldn't even try.) > > I can see two reasonable ways. > 1) have an rsync daemon running on each server and a constantly running > script on each server going either to or from the other server. > 2) have an rsync daemon running on one server and a constantly running > script on the other, alternately pushing and pulling. > > Regardless, -u (--update) is probably what you want. > You may want to exclude rsync temporaries somehow > (--exclude='.*' might be what you want) > (Copying a temporary of a temporary after ... if (when) something goes > down) > You can get a wee bit of a mess if cron jobs start stepping on each other. > No real damage other than producing multiple copies of dead temporaries. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:47 PM > > To: rsync@lists.samba.org > > Subject: Can rsync monitor a file system? > > > > > > > > I am trying to get two servers to copy each others data to the other > > server. > > I need it to be done real time a not use a cron. > > > > Can rsync running as a daemon monitor the files system to trigger a > > transmission? > > > > If so how do I configure it? > > > > I am running Solaris 9. > > > > Thank you. > > > > ______________________ > > > > Charles Berman > > Senior Unix Administrator > > > > "Think Globally" > > > > > > The contents of this email are the property of the sender. If it > > was not addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If > > you think you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do > > not forward or copy without permission of the sender. > > -- > > To unsubscribe or change options: > > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
