Re: OT: seeking advice on sync'ing remote filesystems

[Greg Thomas <getbsd_(_at_)_dslextreme_(_dot_)_com>]

On Jun 29, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Richard P. Koett wrote:

> This may or may not be an OpenBSD question. I am seeking any advice 
> people on the list care to offer.
>
> A server in one city is to be kept in sync with a spare server at 
> another location.

Syncing what?  Files?  Memory?

> I have tried to research this on Google and so far turned up:
> (a) many solutions for MS-Windows
> (b) many solutions using specialized appliances
> (c) many references to rsync.
>
> I could be wrong but my impression in reading about rsync is that it's 
> intended more as a sophisticated replacement for rcp than for 
> real-time filesystem sychronization.

rsync will probably do just fine.

Greg