Simplest way to synch?

yooakim · Post by **yooakim** » 13 Jan 2009, 02:48

I have two BUBBAs.

One Bubba (original) and the new BUBBA|TWO.

I've now moved all my stuff onto the BUBBA|TWO.

One thing I could do is sell the old BUBBA. but what I want to do is to use the old BUBBA as a mirror of the new BUBBA|TWO.

I guess that one could use Rsync?

but what I would like to know is if there is anyone who have a setup like this and could share the steps to set it up?

Any pointers are more than welcome!

/joakim

dan13l · Post by **dan13l** » 16 Jan 2009, 11:07

Yeah, rsync sounds like the best way to do it.

Or you could simply have a script that runs and copies files, and create a cron job to do that periodically.

Xet · Post by **Xet** » 16 Jan 2009, 14:19

Even though simply copying the files does work, is probably not such a great idea since you might end up copiying files that hasn't changed. This will produce unnecessary disc-writes and use of bandwidth.
Using a tool like rsync prevents that.

Personally I use Unison( http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ ) to backup data on my Bubba to an USB-drive. As far as I know it work in a similar way as rsync.