[PLUG] Looking for the right rsync command...

[Eitan Tsur]

Let me verify what I think you want: Some way to have a filesystem mirrored
real-time, to a remote location, via a network connection, and you are
asking whether rsync can do this for you.

Well, from what I know of rsync, (which is hardly anything, so don't think
this is definitive,) it merely synchronizes files as they are when it is
run.  If you wanted the files to be synchronized between your system and a
backup location often, you'd have to re-run rsync say every minute via a
scheduled task or something.  If this were good enough for your purposes,
then maybe that works.  Someone with a better understanding of rsync and
_all_ of it's features may be able to shed more light on this matter for you
however.  I've only used it for backup purposes, where real-time
synchronization was never a requirement.

Regards,
-Eitan-

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:38 AM, robinson-west user <
plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:

> rsync -HpogD --exclude /proc --exclude /tmp -exclude /backup -
> alrv / /backup/remote_backup/goose_live/
>
> I want to mirror my live Linux filesystem to another hard drive on a
> remote system.  Can rsync do this for me or is it not compatible with
> files that are changing?
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