On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:13:43PM -0700, Robert Miesen wrote: > Hi. > > I have several machines---two Linux machines, one Windows 7 machine, and > one Windows 7 Virtual Machine hosted on one of the two Linux machines in > the setup. I am wanting to mirror a set of folders on all of these > machines and have any changes I make to this set of folders synced with > the other machines. It is highly unlikely that data will change on two > machines at the same time, since I'm the only one using them and, when > I'm using more than one, they are always connected to the same intranet. > > I was thinking of using some combination of rsync and NFS to get the job > done, but I am curious if anyone here has any better ideas before I get > too involved in setting this up.
I'm considering Unison (www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) for this same job (more machines, though!). But I haven't had time to study it or set it up. If somebody here has Unison working, let us know, and consider presenting what you know at a PLUG meeting. One issue for me is propagating error. If I make a musstayk working on a file, I don't want it writing over all the good copies. So a copy of each good file must get backed up before the mirroring. Now all we need to do is define "good", which looks like an AI problem. I run nightly disk-to-disk backups with dirvish, a wrapper for rsync. Any file, good or bad, that is around at backup time (typically 1AM to 4AM) is saved for approximately forever. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
