[ale] File server syncronization

[Richard Bronosky]

1 minute cron on  a potentially IO or net bound process sounds flaky
to me. Sure you can use a lock file scheme, but it just feels like
your  working on iWheel 2.0

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> cron job on a 1 minute interval does a specific find for mtime -1 and
> rsynchs those files over
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:42 PM, David Ritchie <deritchie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ALEers...
>>
>> Looking trying to synchronize two file systems on an ongoing basis
>> (i.e. a distributed file system). Just curious
>> about your thoughts about things like rsync vs. Unison  or other tools
>> you have seen...  Need to have files migrate over
>> semi realtime (i.e. I drop a file in a directory, it should auto
>> magically appear on a local directory on the remote machine - and
>> there could be both data files and executable transferred)... Thoughts?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dave Ritchie
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