On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Matt Jaffe mjaffe-at-scires.com |Rsync List| wrote: > When operating in daemon mode, will rsync check to see which file is > newer and decide which direction to transfer based on that? Example, We > have 2 terminal servers, A and B. I want users to be able to work on > either server and have their home directories on both stay in sync. If > a user logs into server A and changes files, the server would know to > transfer the file from A to B. If they log into server B, rsync > transfers from B to A.
rsync is designed to be a unidirectional transfer program, like rcp/scp, only with the addition of its clever bandwidth reduction algorithm. For a two-way sync, try Unison: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ -- Steve -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
