On Thu 22 Feb 2007, Chris Nighswonger wrote:

>  I have two production servers which house large drive arrays storing
> digitized music for our webradio. They are used in a 'failover'
> configuration so that if one goes down the other remains available.
> New music is added all of the time to this library and it is a pain to
> have to add it to both machines as the files are large (.wav). I am
> thinking to setup rsync to keep the drives sync'd. My only question is
> whether it is possible to have rsync doing its thing while these files
> are being accessed for use? ie. real-time sync.

That depends on your operating system.

Windows generally objects to files being opened more than once;
linux/unix systems won't have a problem.


Paul Slootman
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