From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGtU5-0002x2-8D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:25:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7Q8NbBq018936; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:23:37 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7Q8KRij005255 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:20:28 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D634F42260 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:20:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:20:26 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] File replication Message-ID: <20060826092026.3da414d1@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060826004924.61735.qmail@web35210.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060826004924.61735.qmail@web35210.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.20; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_.DtiCwk6QUxgNP4A_vIM5e3; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e7f1c1b8-adb6-47c5-aa74-59fa91002df5 X-Archives-Hash: 2a30792000f916f3eed3f7d4da15afc3 --Sig_.DtiCwk6QUxgNP4A_vIM5e3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:49:23 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote: > I'm searching a tool/method whenever I save a file on /home/user a > duplicate copy will be saved automatically on > /mnt/point/of/usb_enclosure/home/user simultaneously, similar to > replication/mirroring. Thus the USB enclosure can be used as a mobile > storage device and can be plugged in on any Linux PC. You could set up a RAID-1 array on the two devices. Auto-detect RAID information is saved at the end of the device, so it can still be used as a standalone drive/partition when connected to something else. One advantage of RAID is that if you run with the device disconnected and then connect it, the RAID will be updated in the background. I've not tried this, so don't blame me if you lose data or your cat catches fire :( --=20 Neil Bothwick BUFFERS=3D20 FILES=3D15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go! --Sig_.DtiCwk6QUxgNP4A_vIM5e3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE8ARKum4al0N1GQMRAivEAKCpVIjVkZb5qLgiFU40dKJNi9NpgQCgiNFP PCiLxpmzaE4tyyFlMgYHASU= =WT9O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_.DtiCwk6QUxgNP4A_vIM5e3-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list