Rsync Setup
Hi, I'm trying to get my brain around rsync. What I am trying to do is synchronise 2 directories on different machines. I have an rsync server running on one machine and running it as a client on the other. I have been able to get this setup to work. However, it just syncs the directories on machine A with those on B. If B has a later version of the file on A it gets overwritten with the older version from A. I have done a fair bit of reading on rsync which leads me to believe that it will only work one way. Is this correct? If so, is there any other way of synchronising the 2 directories so that they end up with the latest version of the file(s) from either machine. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rsync Setup
Robert Slade wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my brain around rsync. What I am trying to do is synchronise 2 directories on different machines. I have an rsync server running on one machine and running it as a client on the other. I have been able to get this setup to work. However, it just syncs the directories on machine A with those on B. If B has a later version of the file on A it gets overwritten with the older version from A. I have done a fair bit of reading on rsync which leads me to believe that it will only work one way. Is this correct? If so, is there any other way of synchronising the 2 directories so that they end up with the latest version of the file(s) from either machine. you can only do one way at a time, so what you need to do is: rsync options machine_A:/pathA machine_B:/pathB rsync options machine_B:/pathB machine_A:/pathA Then what you need is to find the correct options so that the first rsync does not overwrite files that should have been synced the other way. options -u and -t seems to do that. You can do this as a batch script on just one of the machines, so you don't get any race conditions. My options are -Cuvaz, but I only sync one way. You should be carefull: if clocks on the servers are out of sync, you may get syncing the wrong way! and you will have problems deleting files, this has to be done both places. If you instead can assing one machine as master and the other as slave, so you only sync one way, then you avoid all these problems. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rsync Setup
Robert Slade wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my brain around rsync. What I am trying to do is synchronise 2 directories on different machines. I have an rsync server running on one machine and running it as a client on the other. I have been able to get this setup to work. However, it just syncs the directories on machine A with those on B. If B has a later version of the file on A it gets overwritten with the older version from A. I have done a fair bit of reading on rsync which leads me to believe that it will only work one way. Is this correct? If so, is there any other way of synchronising the 2 directories so that they end up with the latest version of the file(s) from either machine. You want the update -u option: rsync -auv from to rsync -auv to from ...as in: % mkdir from to % touch from/a % echo 'hi' to/a % touch to/b % echo 'bye' from/b % rsync -auv from to building file list ... done from/ from/a from/b sent 188 bytes received 60 bytes 496.00 bytes/sec total size is 4 speedup is 0.02 % rsync -auv to from building file list ... done to/ to/a to/b to/from/ to/from/a to/from/b sent 321 bytes received 100 bytes 842.00 bytes/sec total size is 7 speedup is 0.02 % cat to/a hi % cat to/b % cat from/a % cat from/b bye -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rsync Setup
At 2005-04-03T21:28:13+01:00, Robert Slade wrote: If so, is there any other way of synchronising the 2 directories so that they end up with the latest version of the file(s) from either machine. The `net/unison' port may be of use to you. See http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | See mail headers for contact Harish-Chandra Research Institute | and OpenPGP details. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rsync Setup SOLVED
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 05:56, N. Raghavendra wrote: At 2005-04-03T21:28:13+01:00, Robert Slade wrote: If so, is there any other way of synchronising the 2 directories so that they end up with the latest version of the file(s) from either machine. The `net/unison' port may be of use to you. See http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Raghavendra. Thank you and all the others who replied - problem solved. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
