[ltp] intermezzo?

[Tod Harter]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 1:51 pm, Ferdinand Haselbacher (jr.) wrote:

> yes it was kind a painful ! because u need an webserver and i jused apache
> because thats the one i know best of all available webservers, and so it
> got very big for just "synchronizing" your data once a day or twice ! so i
> got back to go via NFS and rsync and syncing my files to an alpha server
> (AlphaPC 164SX). IMHO i think this is the best and easiest way to
> synchronize my data especially $Mail and $home and last but not least /etc
> because i spent much of my free time to get my T40Pp running with debian
> (especially the Xserver was kind of funny to set up)
>
> anyone got a better solution for handling such things ?

Nope, rsync rules! You could even hack your network startup scripts a bit and 
have the sync happen when the machine notices its on your home network. Can 
be a bit tricky to do, but given the fact that rsync is pretty close to 
maximum theoretical efficiency for this kind of thing its hard to do better.

I believe the coda file system (CFS) also provides the ability to do a form of 
syncing, but its more like you declare a network volume and you can then work 
with it in 'disconnected mode' which just means the files are locally cached 
for you. When the system notices you've reconnected it can synchronize. I've 
never worked with it though and I don't think its really ever been in very 
common use (though Linux does support it).

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> axp
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