Rsync mirroring howto and FAQ

Karsten Thygesen (karthy@sunsite.auc.dk)

SunSITE Denmark, Aalborg University, Denmark

$Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 1999/10/31 11:19:40 $

This document contains information on how to install rsync as a daemon for anonymous synchronization of file hierarchies. This concept is extremely powerful in terms of mirroring and other frequent updates of large file hierarchies.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Status of this document

Chapter 2: How to setup rsync for anonymous mirroring

2.1: Compilation

2.2: Configuration

2.3: Launching

2.3.1: Launching as stand-alone daemon
2.3.2: Launching from inetd

2.4: Testing

2.5: Logging

2.6: Examples on mirroring

2.7: Advanced installation

Chapter 3: rsync enabled sites

Chapter 4: Frequent Asked Questions