[plug] Constant rsync'ing...

[Tony Breeds]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:04:33PM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> We run rsync from server to server to keep everything the same on all servers. 
> We used to do this every 5 minutes. We now do it every 15 minutes. It's a 
> performance hit! Lots of filesystem scanning and comparing, just to copy a 
> couple of small altered files across.
> 
> Is there a better solution? Ideally, something daemon-ish, that 
> auto-replicated changes, triggered by the filesystem itself? Or at least a 
> more efficient way of finding recently modified files? (I'd rather not rely 
> on datestamp - and it also needs to handle replicating file deletes...)

For 2.4 series kernels look at intermezzo.  It's not 100% of what you're
after but I think it'll comes close enough.

http://www.inter-mezzo.org/  for mor info.


Yours Tony

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