Quoting Justin Mason (jm@jmason.org):
> 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.
I'm well aware of this. But the situation we were talking about involved files that are only created and never modified, so thats why I said that rsync won't buy much.
-josh