Using rsync to sync two live servers

[Tevfik Karagülle]

You can use shadow copy functionality on windows 2003 systems to address
open file issue.

Check http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=81
for a possible solution.

Tev

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsync-bounces+tevfik=itefix.no at lists.samba.org 
> [mailto:rsync-bounces+tevfik=itefix.no at lists.samba.org] On 
> Behalf Of Chris Nighswonger
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org; Chris Nighswonger
> Subject: Re: Using rsync to sync two live servers
> 
> On 2/22/07, Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu 22 Feb 2007, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> >
> > >  I have two production servers which house large drive arrays 
> > > storing digitized music for our webradio. They are used 
> in a 'failover'
> > > configuration so that if one goes down the other remains 
> available.
> > > New music is added all of the time to this library and it 
> is a pain 
> > > to have to add it to both machines as the files are large 
> (.wav). I 
> > > am thinking to setup rsync to keep the drives sync'd. My only 
> > > question is whether it is possible to have rsync doing its thing 
> > > while these files are being accessed for use? ie. real-time sync.
> >
> > That depends on your operating system.
> >
> > Windows generally objects to files being opened more than once; 
> > linux/unix systems won't have a problem.
> 
> Unfortunatily they are windows systems. The broadcast 
> software we use only comes in that flavor otherwise they would be nix.
> 
> So when windows objects to an open file being sync'd will 
> rsync simply skip it and keep going? Or will it bail out of 
> the sync? I can stand missing an open file since the sync 
> runs every hour.
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Nighswonger
> Network & Systems Director
> Foundations Bible College & Seminary
> www.foundations.edu
> www.fbcradio.org
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