From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 7 21:28:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550F016A41A; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:28:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@mawer.org) Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FE313C491; Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@mawer.org) Received: from 203-206-173-235.perm.iinet.net.au (HELO [10.24.1.1]) ([203.206.173.235]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony6.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 08 Feb 2007 05:18:53 +0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAH7OyUXLzq3r/2dsb2JhbAANoD0BAQGBDA X-IronPort-AV: i="4.13,296,1167580800"; d="scan'208"; a="610297917:sNHT16157860" Message-ID: <45CA425D.2010604@mawer.org> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:19:25 +1100 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <7EFF8D531C0D5647031D80AB@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <7EFF8D531C0D5647031D80AB@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sync'ng directories between two servers ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:28:58 -0000 On 8/02/2007 1:11 AM, 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 ... Try sysutils/cpdup - I've used it in the past and it's reasonably quick and efficient. http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cpdup/ --Antony