Csync2 a filesystem syncronization tool for Linux

Posted by linuxaria on Jul 7, 2012 4:23 PM EDT
linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria
Mail this story
Print this story

Sometimes is useful to sync automatically files over the net between 2 or more computers, maybe you want to keep some configuration files aligned on different servers or maybe you have a cluster of web servers and you want to keep their document root aligned so your customer will always see the same result.

You could do this with a network filesystem like NFS, GlusterFS or Coda File system. But why do complicated things when you could easily do this just keeping in sync the local filesystem ?

In a former article I’ve talked about Unison to do a work like that, and it works, the limit of Unison is that you can have just 2 nodes, but if you have more nodes you have to use a different solution like the one i present you today: csync2

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Tutorial

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.