Rsync configuration

[Michael Fairchild]

Please reply to the list, not to me.

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:35, Bhattacharyya, Somraj wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I will do it tomorrow morning in lab. Just a small
> clarification,
> 
> rsync -ae ssh /home/httpd/htdocs/ replica:/home/httpd/htdocs/ in this
> command I hope "replica:" stands for the name of the slave server. The name
> of my slave server is web2. So for my case the command should be
> 
> rsync -ae ssh /home/httpd/htdocs/ web2:/home/httpd/htdocs/
> 
yes.
> Also I have made the alis configuration in the hosts file of my master
> server.
I don't know about that.
>  Please confirm this small thing.
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> Somraj  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fairchild at corona.physics.ucla.edu
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Sent: 30/07/03 17:07
> Subject: RE: Rsync configuration
> 
> > Very important I am just stucked at this point.
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I started working on rsync and RH8 linux recently. I have loaded the
> > rsync-2.5.5-1.i386.rpm. The list of rsync help paramets are coming on
> > screen,when I am typing rsync -h.
> >
> > But I coulnot find any rsync.conf file in my linux box. Could anyone
> > please tell me how to confgure and launch rsync for the following
> > purpose.
> >
> > The scenario is:
> > I have two apache servers running on RH Linux-8 boxes. One of my web
> > server is the master server(146.176.165.2) and I want to make the
> other
> > one as a replica(146.176.165.1) of the master one. So, I need to
> > replicate the web pages automatically and I want to do it by rsync.
> > Right now the servers are within a same network but I have a plan to
> > place them into two different networks in future.
> 
> The way I would do this is:
> on the master,
> rsync -ae ssh /home/httpd/htdocs/ replica:/home/httpd/htdocs/
> cron this command to run as often as you want.  To use ssh as a tunnel
> set
> up an ssh key (man ssh-keygen, man ssh.)  You might want to consider
> using
> forced command on the replica (put command="rsync server blabblabla" in
> the begining of the key line.)  you can see what the command would be by
> dding verbosity, -v, flags to the above command.
> There are other ways to do it, but that is how I would do it. If you use
> ssh it won't matter so as if the network is not secure.
> > Eagerly waiting to hear ..
> > Thanks and regards
> > Somraj
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