[Sunhelp] rdist

[Bill Bradford]

Look for a program called "rsync" - you can find it on www.freshmeat.net.

Much better than rdist, has compression, and you can pipe it through
ssh for extra security.

Bill

On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 09:59:09AM +0000, Ben Dougherty wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am trying to keep an identical copy of a directory structure from one
> sun box
> to another via a bridge (two cisco's).
> I am using rdist to install, remove files within the directory
> structure, my
> problem is that the rdist completion cycle is around 30 minutes, which
> is too
> long.
> I initally thought the bottle neck would be with the bridge but
> increasing the
> connection from 1meg to 2meg then to 4meg made no difference in the
> clock cycle.
> When I decreased the bridge link below 1meg the clock cycle slowed.
> It seems the bottle neck lies with rdist itself or the Suns processor,
> when the
> bridge link is greater than 1meg.
> Could anyone help to shed some light on this or point me in the
> direction of a
> better soloution.
> Thanks,
> Ben.

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