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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File replication
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:23:33
Message-Id: 20060827161757.2631dce6@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] File replication by Stephen Liu
1 On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:14:25 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote:
2
3 > > but I still don't
4 > > see
5 > > why you need real-time mirroring. A script to sync the drive before
6 > > unmounting would give you an accurate mirror. A cron script to check
7 > > if
8 > > the drive is mounted and sync it every hour would cut down on the
9 > > amount
10 > > of data to sync when unmounting.
11 >
12 > If running sync periodically on poweroff the PC there will be some
13 > files not yet updated.
14
15 Shutdown involves unmounting the drive, and I recommended syncing before
16 unmounting.
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20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 Modulation in all things.

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