On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Marco Frattola wrote: > hi to all the list, > merry xmas and happy new year.
Same to you. > one of the two server (call it the master) periodically receive new > files, scattered in many dirs. the second server (call it the slave) > has to catch up. they're connected via an ISDN line and i thought they > could synchronize during night hours, where telco bill is cheaper. but > i never played with mirror, nor i know of any alternative, and i'd > like to get advice from those who have already played with such toys. > i could also write some ad-hoc sh/perl thing, but i'd rather not > reinvent the wheel .. If you aren't saving a ftp site locally, maybe you should consider rsync. I use it nightly to backup a server at work to a secondary server. HTH, Brandon P.S. I think there is also rdist, but I remember needing more functionallity.