Re: PRCS question Justin Mason (jm@jmason.org)
Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:19:03 +0100

Josh MacDonald said:

> As easy as socket(), bind(), listen(), accept(), and connect(). Security
> is the hard part. If you are willing to use ssh to establish secure
> connections then it should be pretty easy and rsync won't really buy you
> much. Each machine could just keep a log of files that it has and the
> last synchronization point for its peers logs. Since files aren't changing
> all you need is to figure out what new files there are and transfer them.

Bear in mind rsync has the ability to sync deltas; ie. a 5meg text file with an extra sentence in the middle on the "master" side will result in only those few bytes being transferred.

--j.