[svlug] Rsync across SSH & alternatives

[Skip Evans]

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> Really the only way to get something close to realtime is to do 
> something like device mirroring.
> 
> You could setup drbd (master on east coast) to sync to a read only
> slave on the west coast. Using GFS2 or Gluster to be able to mount
> the shared filesystem concurrently.
> 
> You might need to setup a VPN between the two servers.
> 

Do you think a VPN connection is going to stay up reliably 
24/7 as this is going to require? I have set up only one once 
before and it was quite slow across different ISP networks. I 
remember editing code across it and it taking sometimes 30 
seconds to just save a source code file when the Save button 
on Quanta was pressed.

In fact, the machines were only a few blocks apart, but one 
was on the phone company's network and the other on the cable 
company. It finally proved unusable for just editing code 
files. But then again, I'm not at expert at configuring VPNs 
so maybe it was my fault.

Skip


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