[Sunhelp] "Mirroring" two directories over the net. Info please.

[Jarrett m Carver]

    I know that volumn manager and the sparc storage arrays allow you to
configure two systems to use the same storage array. I have'nt looked into the
set-up you are talking about, but it may be possible.   (provided you are using
storrage arrays and the two servers are close enough to connect them both to one
storage array.) This would be more of a network mirroring.

We use RSYNC here to update our back up web server, however it run on a crontab
every night, so it is not mirroring o the extent that until the crontab is run
the info will be out of sync. This will all depend on how volitile and time
sensitive you info is.

Rob Staab wrote:

> The other problem being that tar will bomb out after 2.1 gig. :(
>
>                            Robert Staab
>
> On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
>
> > The only problem with tar [...] | tar [...] is that it will take couple of
> > hours to complete for the amount of data I have in the directory (> 25 GB
> > for a single machine, and there are 3 sets I want to implement).
> >
> > I'm going to check on samba site. Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrian
> >
> > ------Original message-------
> > From: Doug McLaren <dougmc at frenzy.com>
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> > Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] "Mirroring" two directories over the net. Info
> > please.
> > Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 00:58:25 -0500
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> > On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 08:03:56PM -0700, Adrian Petrescu wrote:
> >
> > | Is there any kind of "tool" to help me to create a mirror of a directory
> > | (file system) located on an UNIX box to another directory (file system) on
> > a
> > | different UNIX box over the net ?
> >
> > The one shot method :
> >
> >     tar -cf - . | rsh host 'cd /whatever ; tar -xpvvf -'
> >
> > (replace rsh with ssh if that's what turns your crank.)
> >
> > If you want to automate it and make it efficient, you may want to look
> > into rsync, available at ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/rsync.
> >
> > Of course there's a dozen other answers to this question, but these
> > two will usually do quite nicely.
> >
> > --
> > Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com
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Jarrett Carver                            DIA OSIS System Administrator
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