"symmetric" mirroring (was "testing")

Michael Salmon Michael.Salmon at uab.ericsson.se
Tue Apr 30 00:00:02 EST 2002


On Thursday, April 25, 2002 07:34:47 PM -0500 Rich Winkel 
<rich at math.missouri.edu> wrote:
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| Sorry for the junk mail, it seems my last post was lost in the ether,
| despite being successfully delivered to lists.samba.org (!)
| Very frustrating, since I didn't keep a copy of it.
|
| My question was regarding what might be called symmetric mirroring,
| where two sets of identical files, both being simultaneously updated,
| are periodically syncronized.
|
| Has anyone implemented this?  I posted a script which I think
| would work.  If my original post doesn't show up I guess I'll have
| to type it in again.  At any rate, implementing it in rsync doesn't
| seem like it would be too difficult.
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This is basically what unison does, its main drawback at present is that it 
doesn't understand hard links, that and the fact that it is written in 
Objective CAML ;^).

/Michael
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