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You want something real time like lsyncd.

On 09/29/11 19:57, Jason Usher wrote:
> Let's say I have a slow, or high latency (or both) link between two hosts, 
> and transferring data is expensive.
> 
> Is it possible with rsync (or any other tool like rsync) to maintain a local 
> metadata cache, such that I can rsync without transferring data to and from 
> the hosts about what files are already in place ?
> 
> That is, I already "know" what is out there and don't need to check anything 
> - I can just use the state information on the sending end to send only the 
> data required, and don't need to traverse the remote filesystem for 
> sizes/datestamps/hashes/etc.
> 
> Does this exist ?

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