Mailing List Archive: rsync for mirroring

rsync for mirroring

Jul 29, 2002, 5:25 AM

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Could you make international wikis available via rsync ?
It will be much easier to make local mirrors in that case,
and it will be possible to sync more often than once a day.

Re: rsync for mirroring [ In reply to ]

taw at users

Jul 29, 2002, 7:40 AM

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 02:50:20PM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > Could you make international wikis available via rsync ?
>
> An exciting idea. Would you even try Unison for this?
> Is there any benefit to using Unison over rsync for this kind of
> uni-directional application?
>
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

It doesn't seem to have any advantage and is less popular,
so I'd rather choose rsync.