Making duplicate hard drives
 

I have (2) servers that are exactly the same. They both have hot swapable drives. One is being used as the server and one is just a backup unit. I want to be able to make the hard drive on the backup server to be an exact copy when I copy the files to it at night. I'm not sure if rsync is what I want or something else. The machines are side by side to each other. Should I just run a cable between them or plug the backup machine into the network? Any suggestions?


Thanks.

I believe rsync is a good solution for this application. Note that it can be configured to use ssh instead of rsh by setting the RSYNC_RSH environment variable to ssh.

Tim