Re: mirror sites with sarge

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

On 6/21/05, Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Siju George wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >To start with.
> >
> >I have a set of folders "A" on a computer "Sarge1".
> >I have another computer "Sarge2" with a copy of the same set of folders "A"..
> >
> >The contents of the set of folders "A" on "Sarge1" gets deleted,
> >updated, modified continously.
> >How can I get those changes on to the set of folders "A" on "Sarge2"
> >as soon as possible??
> >
> >i.e The changes to "A" on "Sarge1" should be propogated to "A" on
> >"Sarge2" as quickly as possible.
> >
> >is running
> >
> >#rsync -avz root@Sarge1:A root@Sarge2:A
> >
> >continously as a cronjob the best way to do it???
> >
> >if so how will I give the password for "root" on "Sarge1" while
> >executing the above command  in a shell script as a cronjob??
> >
> >Could someone please guide me if there are better ways of doing the
> >propagation of changes??
> >
> >Thankyou so much
> >
> >Kind Regards
> >
> >Siju
> >
> >
> >
> If the machines are very remote then rsync from a cron job is probably
> the best way, yep. Look at the ssh manpage about using public-key
> authentication so you don't need to type the password (simply create a
> key with no password).
> 
> If, however, the machines are really close together you might like to
> look into using NFS instead. That was you only need to keep the files on
> Sarge1 and mount A onto Sarge2, which will _always_ have the >latest version.
> 

Thanks a lot for the reply Chris :-)

I want to have two set of copies actually for redundancy.
How are the debian mirror sites kept synchronized?? I just wonder!!

Kind regards

Siju