In general Britton is correct. The only thing that might help Ivan is the
-u option, which works strictly on file modification time. He didn't
mention having discovered it.
- Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 12:01:00PM -0800, Britton wrote:
>
> I do this sort of thing between my home and work machines, but only one
> system changes at a time, and I do a sync in the appropriate direction at
> the end of each session.
>
> I think what you want may not be possible, since rsync doesn't maintain
> any database about the files it handles and deleted files have no date
> stamps associated with them. I think you need full blown distributed file
> system.
>
> Britton Kerin
> __
> GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always."
>
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Kovalev, Ivan wrote:
>
> > I am doing a "poor man cluster" using rsync to synchronize content of 2
> > servers each of which has its own directly attached storage. Since it is a
> > cluster (load balancer on top of these 2 servers), new additions as well as
> > deletions might appear on any of the 2 servers.
> >
> > Newly added files are replicated just fine, but I need list's wisdom on how
> > to replicate deletions.
> >
> > Suppose I have a new file on server1 and it is pooling from server2 with
> > --delete option. Then my new file will be deleted because it is not present
> > on server2. If I do push from server1 to server2 without --delete as a first
> > step (to make sure new file is there by the time I will pool), then I will
> > also push old files from server1 which were deleted on server2 since last
> > synchronization. This will effectively kill replication of deletions.
> >
> > The problem would be solved if rsync had a way to do updates compare to the
> > known system state. I mean if I could direct it to replicate only the
> > changes that were done after time T.
> >
> > I did not find anything like this in man pages or list's archives for last
> > few months, but the question seem to be so obvious, that I am probably
> > missing something.
> >
> > Ivan Kovalev
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> > New York, NY 10007-3100
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> > fax.(646)822-2800
> >
> >
> >
>
