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Date:      Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:00:35 -0700
From:      David Fuchs <david@davidfuchs.ca>
To:        ecrist@secure-computing.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Website Mirroring [was DNS/BIND Question]
Message-ID:  <40CAB823.6010100@davidfuchs.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200406120201.36558.ecrist@secure-computing.net>
References:  <200406120201.36558.ecrist@secure-computing.net>

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Eric Crist wrote:

>Also, what is your recommendation of how to maintain the correct mirror data?  
>One server is the primary, which has ftp access for the web designers.  I'm 
>thinking of either, real-time, or once every 24 hours, updating that 
>information so that both servers have all the correct web sites.  What is the 
>best way to accomplish this?
>  
>

Rsync is an excellent tool for this sort of thing, and it's quite easy 
to use.  It doesn't do real-time updates, but you can have cron run it 
frequently to keep your mirrors up to date.

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/

In fact, there is an Rsync mirroring howto/faq located here:

http://sunsite.dk/info/guides/rsync/rsync-mirroring.html

Thanks,
-David Fuchs BCIS



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