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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:51:45 +0200
From:      Paul Schenkeveld <fb-isp@psconsult.nl>
To:        Arie.Gerszt@student.unisg.ch
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:
Message-ID:  <20020911145145.A74516@psconsult.nl>
In-Reply-To: <OF7A5D2AB3.5A858652-ONC1256C31.00452637@unisg.ch>; from Arie.Gerszt@student.unisg.ch on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:35:28PM %2B0200
References:  <OF7A5D2AB3.5A858652-ONC1256C31.00452637@unisg.ch>

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 02:35:28PM +0200, Arie.Gerszt@student.unisg.ch wrote:
> Hi List
> 
> We have 2 servers working in the internet and would like to have all user
> webserver
> data (e.g. /usr/www/*) mirrored to our backup server, so in case of the
> worst case
> we are live running in minutes.
> 
> as i understand rsync over ssh could be used. note that the server are at 2
> completely
> different location and only connection is through internet (no vpn,
> dedicated line etc)
> 
> how do you do such things?

With rsync it's easy:

    server2$ rsync -ra --delete server1:/usr/www /usr

Notes:
  1. recent versions of rsync automatically use ssh, older versions
     use rsh by default, add '-e ssh' to use ssh (but you don't use
     old versions, do you?)
  2. Be sure to use /usr as the last argument, with /usr/www as the
     last argument you end up with a copy of /usr/www in the directory
     /usr/www/www
  3. You could tweak ssh by adding compression or select another
     encryption algorithm to speed things up.
     For example:
     server2$ rsync -ra --delete -e "ssh -C -c blowfish" server1:/usr/www /usr
     can save some time, provided your CPU is reasonably fast and your
     Internet connection is not that fast.  Even better, put compression
     and encryption settings in your .ssh/config file.

Regards,

Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant
PSconsult ICT Services BV

> thanks
> 
> arie
> 
> 
> 
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