replicating data over 2 servers

Nils Vogels nivo+freebsd-isp at yuckfou.org
Tue May 27 06:48:39 PDT 2003


On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:22:39AM -0500, nbari at unixmexico.com () wrote:
> the problem when using rsync in both servers is that if data on server A
> is  updated, and data on server B is updated at the same time, there is a
> chance to lost data.

So deny write-permissions on either server A or server B for the files
involved :)

If the server goes down, you will notice it by your notification tool anyways,
and you can temporarily (or maybe even scripted) change the write-permissions
of the files involved.

HTH & HAND

Nils.


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