real-time mirroring

[James Alexander Cook]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:24:33AM +0000, Remi Sandevoir wrote:
> 
> You can run this command in a crontab every 5 min for example. When
> rsync find any modification of the source dir, it copy it to the
> destination dir automatically.
> 
> #crontab -l
> */5     *       *       *       *       /usr/local/scripts/rsyncprod
> 
> rsyncprod is my script where i use rsync and make a report 

I don't have any experience with this sort of thing myself, but wouldn't it
be simpler to store the shared data on a networked file system, like AFS?

I don't know much about clustering servers myself, and I'd be interested to
know the relative advantages and disadvantages of these solutions.

- James Cook
  james.cook at utoronto.ca