Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 00:25:16 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> Cc: don@partsnow.com, John Kelly <jak@cetlink.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Data mirroring, how to do it? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224002328.3860A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <19980222020519.61033@emu.sourcee.com>
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You can also check out rsync, I stumbled on it while looking at the samba pages at http://samba.anu.edu.au. It's kind of an rdist/cvsup bastard child, and it mingles nicely with ssh. Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Norman C Rice wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 01:03:20PM -0800, Don Wilde wrote: > > John Kelly wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Feb 1998 07:53:03 -0800, Don Wilde <don@partsnow.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > >If you add a pair of 100-base-T cards to your pair of servers, you can > > > >do hourly backups using CVSup or simple scripts from one to the other on > > > >their own little private net connection. > > > > > > I too need a dual-system, hot-backup type of mirroring solution. > > > > > > But won't CVSup be a big performance drag when running hourly? > > > > niceness (task priority) is your friend... :) > > But, too much ``niceness'' can result in collisions, e.g., the last hour's > CVSup may not complete in time. > > I have used rdist for mirroring with a fair amount of success. I found it > necessary to run several tasks in parallel to tune the performance due > to the number of files being mirrored. > > -- > Regards, > Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > > -- > > oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * > > o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ > > V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] > > /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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