You're thinking of lsyncd: https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd It's essentially a daemon that watches one or more directories via inotify, and fires of incremental rsync processes whenever it sees writes go by (though you can specify filters rather than a simple bit for bit copy). It's basically a poor man's userspace RAID1. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 3/23/2016 8:50 PM, Chris wrote:
Hi all,
I recall someone giving a lightning talk on this quite a while ago (Chuck I think, about 2 years ago!).
I was hoping to set up a simple backup solution with my son. He'd replicate his data to my system, mine to his. Now, the interesting part, was I think that the replication method someone used was a lazy write to the backup location with a folder watching process or something. I don't think I want to set up DRBD for this, but I would like an efficient backup operation (e.g. would be nice to be able to efficiently backup written chunks of a file with an EFS system on it).
Might someone remember what I'm talking about, or have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance! Hope you are all well. --Chris
PS - LibrePlanet was pretty fun :) _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of. Thank you, Frank! I knew it was someone at WPI, sorry for mis-appropriating credit for your share ;) On 2016-03-23 20:54, Frank Sweetser wrote:
You're thinking of lsyncd:
https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd
It's essentially a daemon that watches one or more directories via inotify, and fires of incremental rsync processes whenever it sees writes go by (though you can specify filters rather than a simple bit for bit copy). It's basically a poor man's userspace RAID1.
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
On 3/23/2016 8:50 PM, Chris wrote:
Hi all,
I recall someone giving a lightning talk on this quite a while ago (Chuck I think, about 2 years ago!).
I was hoping to set up a simple backup solution with my son. He'd replicate his data to my system, mine to his. Now, the interesting part, was I think that the replication method someone used was a lazy write to the backup location with a folder watching process or something. I don't think I want to set up DRBD for this, but I would like an efficient backup operation (e.g. would be nice to be able to efficiently backup written chunks of a file with an EFS system on it).
Might someone remember what I'm talking about, or have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance! Hope you are all well. --Chris
PS - LibrePlanet was pretty fun :) _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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