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Does anyone know if there is free software that can keep 2 filesystem on remote machines , synced.
This will be part of our Disaster Recovery to keep one machine off site , which will take over should the need arise..

Thanks

Have you tried "man rsync"?

Cheers
ZB

If the rsync man pages have not been installed, then you'll see nothing.

If you've not got it already, check out rsync HERE!.

Thanks for your reply.
Will try rsync.

Cheers!

I'm running rsync to keep two filesystems synced up between two offices and it's working very well for me.

Here is an example of the command I'm using.

The first part, /opt/Files/ is what I'm copying, the second /Volumes/nonboot/opt/Files is where I'm copying it to. --delete is removing anything in the second directory that doesn't exist in the first directory. (Keep in mind, this command is running on the machine that relates to the second directory)

I'm running this via Cron and I have sshkeys setup so it doesn't require me to enter a password. Hope it helps some.

rsync -v -r -a -e ssh $ipaddress:/opt/Files/ /Volumes/nonboot/opt/Files --delete --progress

Thanks for the help. )

Haha sure. I've 'used' this forum quite a bit for answers. The least I can do is offer any info I'm able to for someone else.