mirroring in both directions with rsync

John Taylor john at fcs.uga.edu
Fri Jul 30 12:58:55 GMT 2004


Rsync is one way.  If you want two-way synchronization, use unison.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

-John


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:31:20AM -0400, Matt Jaffe wrote:
> When operating in daemon mode, will rsync check to see which file is newer and decide which direction to transfer based on that? 
> Example, 
> We have 2 terminal servers, A and B.  I want users to be able to work on either server and have their home directories on both stay in sync.  If a user logs into server A and changes files, the server would know to transfer the file from A to B.  If they log into server B, rsync transfers from B to A.
> 
> Matthew Jaffe
> Engineer II
> Scientific Research Corporation
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