keeping nodes in synch

Daniel Pfenniger daniel.pfenniger@obs.unige.ch
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 04:38:13 -0400


Jacek Radajewski wrote:
> 
> rsync is good as well.  rsync will only copy the changes.

Yes, and also on option delete the deleted files.  One then gets a true 
copy of a disk/directory with a minimum of traffic.

In our Beo cluster we use rsync to backup the two master nodes on
*spare* 
hard disks.  This is much cheaper than a tape backup.

Daniel Pfenniger