In response to Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I've got a directory on ServerA that I would like to keep sync'd on > > ServerB > > ... to date, I've been using rsync for this, but what I hate with that is > > that > > it has to scan the whole directory on both servers to compare, putting a > > good > > load on each of them ... > > > > Is there anything out there that ppl are using successfully that just > > looks > > at ServerA, and dumps across those files that have changed since the last > > sync? > > ServerB will never have any changes made to it, other then what ServerA > > sends > > across ... > > Rsync is about as good as it reasonably gets, short of putting everything > explicitly under version control (ie, in SVN or CVS). If you do put the tree > of stuff under VC, doing an update operation on ServerB will only need to > fetch the deltas made since the last update, without doing a comparison of > the > unchanged files or placing much load on ServerA.
<musing> You know, it'd be cool if there was some way to hook rsync in to FAM (or a similar utility). I found some discussion about this on the rsync mailing list. The response seems to indicate that it's more work than it seems. I wish I had time to investigate this, as it sounds like an interesting project. </musing> -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"