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Old 10-31-2003, 11:09 AM   #1
MartinMiller
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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?


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Old 10-31-2003, 11:30 AM   #2
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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.

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