RDist

DESCRIPTION

RDist is an open source program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing - source

Pointers

• http://www.magnicomp.com/rdist/rdist.shtml
• http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue29/pate.html - using rdist for backups
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/rdist/
• http://www.benedikt-stockebrand.de/rdist-intro.html - intro to rdist
• UnixGeekTools - other great tools for unix geeks

Synopsis

  rdist [ -DFn ] [ -A num ] [ -a num ] [ -d var=value ] [ -l <local
  logopts> ] [ -L <remote logopts> ] [ -f distfile ] [ -M maxproc ]
  [ -m host ] [ -o distopts ] [ -t timeout ] [ -p <rdistd-path> ]
  [ -P <transport-path> ] [ name ... ]

  rdist -DFn -c name ... [login@]host[:dest]

  rdist -Server

  rdist -V