[Samba] Synchronizing multiple samba servers

[Christian Rost]

>Is it possible to use rsync instead? i saw that there is a -u option.
>
What you need is a bidirectional file-sync. Even it can be improvised with rsync, unison is the better choice. Unison is based on rsync and syncs files in both directions automatically, and to be on the safe side, it can be set to resolve conflicts manually.

Cheers,

Christian
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--------Janantha Marasinghe <jananthadm at gmail.com> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [Samba] Synchronizing multiple samba servers
Date: 25.04.2012 10:15

>Is it possible to use rsync instead? i saw that there is a -u option.
>
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Janantha Marasinghe
><janantha at janantha.net>wrote:
>
>>  Thanks a lot all . i will look into unison
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/24/2012 1:43 PM, ciradhb.forward at laposte.net wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe you could have a look to Unison which is a tool like rsync but in
>> bidirectionnal way .
>> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html
>>
>> Henri
>>
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>>
>> > -----Message d'origine-----
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>> > De : samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org<samba-bounces at lists.samba.org>]
>> De la part de Janantha Marasinghe
>>
>> > Envoyé : mardi 24 avril 2012 07:20
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>> > À : samba at lists.samba.org
>>
>> > Objet : [Samba] Synchronizing multiple samba servers
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>> >
>>
>> > Hi.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > I have two servers located in two different time zones. I want to know
>> if there is a way to keep the shares synchronized.  Right now
>>
>> > what i thought is to run rsync from Server A to Server B . However the
>> issue is say Server B has a new version of the file in server A and
>>
>> > that should not be overwritten but should be copied back to server A.
>> How to go about this?
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Regards
>>
>> > Janantha
>>
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